working from a train is always so fun
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@rixx@chaos.social an appropriate ping to scribe onto ancient scrolls
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@hiker the ten seconds out of order ping while standing still near a train station is just physics? Germany has a really fancy special physics engine, then.
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@rixx Wait a minute, you didn't say the train had come to a stop. And by the way—I'm writing from Switzerland.
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@hiker I'm pretty sure a 10s ping is never "physics", so long as you're staying on earth.
My reference to Germany was on account of the location of my train. If train WiFi on Swiss trains is usually this bad, then I'm really sorry to hear that.
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@rixx Wi-Fi on the train has to come from somewhere—Wi-Fi cables haven't been invented yet. So the data has to come through the mobile network, and that's where geography and topology play a key role.
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@rixx true story: we regard German train rides and using wifi there as a good test bed for our networking code's ability to work in slow and malfunctioning networks. For example two travelling contributors messaged and established p2p realtime networking between two high speed running ICE trains, to test robustness and reconnection fitness
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@rixx true story: we regard German train rides and using wifi there as a good test bed for our networking code's ability to work in slow and malfunctioning networks. For example two travelling contributors messaged and established p2p realtime networking between two high speed running ICE trains, to test robustness and reconnection fitness
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@rixx true story: we regard German train rides and using wifi there as a good test bed for our networking code's ability to work in slow and malfunctioning networks. For example two travelling contributors messaged and established p2p realtime networking between two high speed running ICE trains, to test robustness and reconnection fitness
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@rixx@chaos.social Try working from trains in the Atlantic coast in the northwest of Spain ("Atlantic axis") using mobile networks: it's mission impossible because the train runs on a trench or inside tunnels. No internet during ~1:30h, only despair.
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@rixx Back in the day when 2 Mb/s serial links between routers were still a thing, I could ping the router in the path to the world still in my city with RTT around 2 minutes. You could leave it on for a day and not a single packet was dropped, but RTT of each and every one of them was around 2 minutes.
Pinging anything beyond that router returned usual results.
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