Back into civilized internet
Earlier this week I noticed something different with my internet connection here in my office. Somehow the speed and reliability improved dramatically. I was just thinking, oh, maybe it’s just temporarily glitch, or some other company in another contractor is doing some maintenance work or having problem with their network so there is no bottleneck on the connection. Because its already occurred several times.
UPDATED on 18 April 2008, back to ice age internet.
But the next day the connection still reliable, and makes me wonder. When I’m logging using SSH on to my server on my server on the states I just noticed that now I got different public IP. Usually my IP will appears from Japan, as my assumption the main contractor is Japan company so they use v-sat connection directly to Japan (or they still using Indonesian v-sat but they re-route it to Japan?). Now my IP is actually coming from Indonesia, using Indosat.
I tracked when actually my public IP was changed, and it happens somewhere in Monday afternoon. Well the speed isn’t fast, compared to most people connections in Jakarta, but its much reliable. Usually I got 4000ms+ average on pings and 50% packets loss. Now? well it’s around 700-900ms to international sites and 400-600ms to local sites and less than 5% packetloss average on office hours.
Well hopefully it will last, not just a temporary thing.
UPDATE 18 April 2008: I guess I spoke to soon. From this morning the latency increased to 4000ms average and the worst is 8000ms! From the traceroute it actually already worsen on the 2nd hop. If I remember it correctly it was less than 10 ms up until 4th hop. 1st hop is my office local router, then from the 2nd to 4th hop managed by our main contractor. I guess back to uncivilized internet. Screenshot:
I’m wondering what may caused this. Is it the admins configured it that way?
