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Politics : Dutch Central Bank Sale Announcement Imminent? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ild who wrote (18058)	4/19/2003 12:07:16 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81137

ild, very interesting and informative. As you say, the transAtlantic link from Africa slows things down considerably. >196.26.208.251 (which belongs your ISP) is 335ms Which is not very different from my 400 msec to Seattle. I have to mention that the usual ping time is 800-1000 msec --- and that's when I'm lucky. Also very interesting to see how fast the speeds are within the US. Actually, in desperation, I use two ISPs because sometimes the bandwidth from either is so bad that being on the net is a total waste of time. So when one is impossible I use the other. Sometimes, I can spend 5-10 minutes to download a single page but usually it's much quicker than that.