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The technical description just doesn’t make sense > The data showed the internet signal had previously taken two steps before going offshore - but was now taki
by rosndo 5y ago
The technical description just doesn’t make sense
> The data showed the internet signal had previously taken two steps before going offshore - but was now taking five.
> Information held by the Herald shows Gen-I studied data showing the amount of time it took information on the internet connection to reach the Xbox server. It went from 30 milliseconds to 180 milliseconds - a huge increase for online gamers.
There’s just no realistic way that bouncing the connection around New Zealand would introduce a ~100ms delay. It sounds like he just started getting bad routes to the gameserver, which is par for the course for Oceania, but unlikely to result from LI.
- Thorrez 5y agoCould the bad routes to the gameserver be a possible accidental side effect of the intercept? Maybe the people doing the intercept made a mistake. It sounds like they made a legal mistake, so maybe a technical mistake isn't that far fetched either.
- rosndo 5y agoA route with latencies like this suggests the traffic bouncing through another country, I can’t imagine LI causing that. Intercepts aren’t hard, it’s a feature built into regular ISP hardware. I’d guess this was just a separate, unrelated routing error.