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> with ping times varying from 3211 to 6389 seconds. I guess this is a new record for ping times… Hmm, T-mobile's network comes close, but not quite that high,
by deathanatos 5y ago
> with ping times varying from 3211 to 6389 seconds. I guess this is a new record for ping times…
Hmm, T-mobile's network comes close, but not quite that high, I think. /s
Somewhat more seriously, I have seen ping times approaching 20,000 ms on their network. Given the light-distance to the moon is ~1.3 seconds, this ping clearly went significantly further than the moon's orbit, and back; very clearly some routes need tweaking.
That or one hop involved a somewhat speedier avian.
- zamadatix 5y agoMore likely than moving far or moving slow the ping spent a long time being buffered at a radio lower layer retransmit where, much like Wi-Fi, having an issue sending the packet can result in multiple retries instead of an immediate drop.
- thamer 5y agoThere are some instances of real data taking much more than 6,389 seconds to travel. Voyager 2 was contacted in November 2020[1], being at the time 18.8 billion km away from Earth. Light takes about 62,000 seconds or 17h25m to travel this distance… each way! Almost a 35-hour ping. Voyager 1 is further away and still sending data, although I don't think that it has received commands for a very long time. [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/11/04/voyager-2-phones-home-and-nasa-still-receives-the-call/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/11/04/voya...
- ryankrage77 5y agoIt recieved commands as recently as December 2017, when the TCM thrusters were activated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1#Future_of_the_probe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1#Future_of_the_probe