Pinging a truly cyberspace IP address...

[spottacus]

Q: When is a 16,000,000 ms ping time fabulous? A: When the address is http://curiosity.mars.jpl.nasa.gov [198.122.199.235]

Comments

[schnee]

Wow. I've heard about long fat pipes with high bandwidth × latency products before, but this (probably) takes the cake. :)

P.S. - good one. ;)

[theflamecrow]

So that's what, 15+ min ping time? Can't play any FPS games, but it's damn good for the distance. XD

[spottacus]

At c, round trip is about 27+ mins... About what this was, with 1800 secs being 30 mins, so 1680 being 28 mins.

[harvardheinous]

Gee whiz, how long did the one that timed out take!

[spottacus]

Hee! Yus... just awesome to see those response times. I was surprised that standard internet software can handle such large numbers without integer overflows