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From: Tony Kimball <alk@think.com>
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Quoth Darren Reed on Thu, 12 September:
:
: > I haven't seen that kind of connect time in a long, long while on the net
: > backbones... but then again, I may be better connected here than most.
: 
: I heard someone mention 25% packet loss on an Australia-USA line (packets were
: being dropped in the USA).
: 
Hah, I've seen MCI drop 66% at WillowSprings for hours at a time,
and Sprint drop 50% at MAE-East for similarly protracted times.
It's like tin-cans on yo-yo strings out there.