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This cropped up alst night in chat. Here is a transmission report over TCP/IP

 

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to guess what type of network connection this transmission test was performed on

 

Script started on Sat Apr 28 11:24:09 2001

inet addr:10.0.3.2 P-t-P:10.0.3.1 Mask:255.255.255.255

UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:150 Metric:1

RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0

RX bytes:88 (88.0 b) TX bytes:168 (168.0 b)

vegard@gyversalen:~$ ping -i 900 10.0.3.1

PING 10.0.3.1 (10.0.3.1): 56 data bytes

64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=6165731.1 ms

64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=3211900.8 ms

64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=5124922.8 ms

64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=6388671.9 ms

--- 10.0.3.1 ping statistics ---

9 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 55% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max = 3211900.8/5222806.6/6388671.9 ms

vegard@gyversalen:~$ exit

Script done on Sat Apr 28 14:14:28 2001

 

No googling!

 

clue - check the time taken to arrive figures. Unusually long!

 

clue - it's a wireless connection.

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Originally posted by Phanerothyme

what wireless form of communication might take an hour or more (3,600,000ms)?

 

Not radio waves, unless they are of a new slow variety.

 

Think lo-tech

Is this an existing technology or is it a hypothetical problem?

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