stupid cable

Monday, October 23, 2000, at 01:50PM

By Eric Richardson

This is why I hate cable modems:


[eric@coredump docs]$ ping ericrichardson.com
PING ericrichardson.com (206.132.163.11): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 206.132.163.11: icmp_seq=0 ttl=243 time=988.8 ms
64 bytes from 206.132.163.11: icmp_seq=1 ttl=243 time=95.4 ms
64 bytes from 206.132.163.11: icmp_seq=2 ttl=243 time=98.9 ms
64 bytes from 206.132.163.11: icmp_seq=3 ttl=243 time=943.4 ms
64 bytes from 206.132.163.11: icmp_seq=4 ttl=243 time=99.8 ms
64 bytes from 206.132.163.11: icmp_seq=5 ttl=243 time=968.6 ms
64 bytes from 206.132.163.11: icmp_seq=6 ttl=243 time=88.9 ms


I've tried this against a bunch of sites, and both from the proxy machine and mine, and they all act like this.


Gar.