UK Internet (was:Soviet Unix User Group)
Daan Sandee
sandee at sun16.scri.fsu.edu
Thu Sep 27 22:37:23 AEST 1990
In article <3168 at vela.acs.oakland.edu> moconnor at argo.acs.oakland.edu writes:
>In article: <1990Sep26.183130.8473 at kth.se>,
>perand at admin.kth.se (Per Andersson) writes:
>| Maybe we will see well connected Soviet sites before English ?
>
>Any particular reason why the U.K. is not in the Internet yet?
>
> Curious...
> ...Mike
There ARE U.K. sites on the Internet.
PING NS1.CS.UCL.AC.UK (128.16.5.32): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 128.16.5.32: icmp_seq=0 time=240 ms
64 bytes from 128.16.5.32: icmp_seq=1 time=280 ms
PING NS2.CS.UCL.AC.UK (128.16.8.3): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 128.16.8.3: icmp_seq=1 time=260 ms
PING MHS-RELAY.AC.UK (128.86.8.25): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 128.86.8.25: icmp_seq=0 time=220 ms
but within the UK they use their home-brew JANET and the hookup to Internet
isn't very good. Even Email may have problems, let alone other IP connections.
Hence, Per's surmise that the SU may soon be better connected than the UK.
Also, some UK poster wondered why Japan wasn't on Internet ... well, he got
plenty of replies saying that it was. If a UK site doesn't see Japanese
traffic, the problem is in UK connectivity, not Japan's.
Daan Sandee sandee at sun16.scri.fsu.edu
Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052 (904) 644-7045
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