a fun looking ping

Monday, March 14, 2005, at 07:20AM

By Eric Richardson

I'm now in the Charlotte, NC, airport and again I'm online via my phone. Access where I'm sitting is a little ugly, though:

--- 206.124.64.1 ping statistics ---
576 packets transmitted, 410 received, +141 duplicates, 28% packet loss, time 575426ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 433.710/6312.642/73431.795/12311.383 ms, pipe 74

What's up with the duplicates? I get those everywhere on this connection.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

Previously on this date...

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