My dad and I have both been having pretty silly issues with the supposed High Speed Internet here where we are staying.
From having to re-login to their captive portal every 24 hours, even if your in the middle of something, drag ass slow access to my dad’s work VPN. OK, so I think the internet here is only fractionally better than dialup. It’s a stretch, but for the most part very true. I hate how companies can get away with saying Broadband is anything faster than 192kbps on average. Just because you can use the service with an ethernet cable or fancy USB connection doesn’t mean anything unless the bandwidth can make a dent in the size of it’s upstream pipe.
The internet here sucks, but at least it’s internet. (I couldn’t be writing this without it.) The connection is provided by a DSL modem/router which is in the room, which my guess goes to a wiring closet somewhere on the hotel premises next to some possibly ancient looking PBX that looks like HAL 9000. The Ethernet connection from the device works only on my dad’s laptop. Fortunately the Elastic DSL device has a USB port, which Linux happily recognizes as an Ethernet adapter.
[ 31.976260] eth1: register 'cdc_ether' at usb-0000:00:03.0-1, CDC Ethernet Device, 00:30:52:05:c4:3c
Using the Ethernet on my dad’s laptop only links up at 10mbps Half-Duplex. The link from the DSL to where it goes, is very slow, both up and down stream.
[note: Thanks to the internet here, I just lost what I've written since my last draft save, bah. Hopefully broadband reports won't mind me redoing the tests.]
Their speed test comes in two flavors; Java Speed Test, and also in a Flash Speed Test. On the Java page, it notes. “Unlike FLASH based speed-tests, our upload payload cannot be compressed, so it gives the correct result even on satellite or wireless connections.” Basically do not trust it’s readings. So stick with the Java one for more correct numbers. I also forgot to copy some of the data I wanted from each speed test. Ohwell.
Palo Alto, California
Miami, Florida
Down/Up
178 / 692 (Kbps)
(21.7 / 84.5 KB/sec)
New Jersey, USA
21 / 521 (Kbps)
(2.6 / 63.6 KB/sec)
Ok, well since I mentioned it earlier, here is my results from the Flash based speed test.
Running a traceroute from my home machine to the public IP address I was assigned, is alright until it hits their firewall as it seems. Most likely blocking incoming traceroutes.
$ traceroute 216.132.2.226
traceroute to 216.132.2.226 (216.132.2.226), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 XXm0n0wallXX (192.168.48.1) 0.250 ms 0.228 ms 0.217 ms
2 10.241.64.1 (10.241.64.1) 10.712 ms 8.736 ms 11.765 ms
3 ip68-0-128-141.tc.ph.cox.net (68.0.128.141) 11.967 ms 10.276 ms 7.982 ms
4 68.2.13.154 (68.2.13.154) 10.062 ms 14.038 ms 11.619 ms
MPLS Label=350896 CoS=0 TTL=1 S=1
5 68.2.13.134 (68.2.13.134) 14.493 ms 12.933 ms 16.501 ms
MPLS Label=235032 CoS=0 TTL=1 S=1
6 * 68.2.13.26 (68.2.13.26) 14.571 ms 22.003 ms
MPLS Label=173265 CoS=0 TTL=1 S=1
7 * * *
8 chnddsrj02-ae2.rd.ph.cox.net (68.2.14.5) 15.999 ms 21.430 ms 27.875 ms
9 68.1.0.232 (68.1.0.232) 29.104 ms 29.012 ms 30.435 ms
10 ge-6-3-0.mpr1.lax9.us.above.net (64.125.13.65) 30.232 ms 28.158 ms 29.797 ms
11 ge-1-0-0.core1.lax.megapath.net (209.249.11.149) 28.261 ms 29.489 ms 27.028 ms
12 155.229.123.208 (155.229.123.208) 54.352 ms 88.281 ms 136.522 ms
MPLS Label=3066 CoS=0 TTL=1 S=1
13 giga0-0-0.sna-e100.gw.epoch.net (155.229.101.130) 46.077 ms 43.008 ms 43.916 ms
MPLS Label=3583 CoS=0 TTL=1 S=1
14 206-135-10-18.sna-e100.cust.gw.epoch.net (206.135.10.18) 79.464 ms 65.763 ms 50.747 ms
15 * * *After attempting to traceroute to my machine from this SlowSpeed, we can see it truly is blocking them. What a crock.
$ traceroute px.ns1.net traceroute to ip68-225-53-142.tc.ph.cox.net (68.225.53.142), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 198.18.0.1 (198.18.0.1) 726.732 ms 239.889 ms 57.909 ms 2 * * * 3 * *
Ohwell, that’s enough of this. I’m tired, and should start thinking about trying to sleep.
[tags]internet, speed tests, costa mesa, California, Marriott, residence inn, DSL, broadband, narrowband, traceroutes, boredom, hotel[/tags]
