You might have heard of NKN i.e National Knowledge Network by Govt. of India. Overall idea of NKN was to connect all educational institutions within country including all IIT’s, IIM’s, NIT’s and various govt. universities on fiber at 1Gbps speed.…
Category: Networking
Start of competition based on speeds
Yesterday I read about BSNL increasing speeds from 512Kbps to 1Mbps (with caps). Today I came across news in Business Line about Bharti Airtel increasing speed on wireline DSL. This is really good believe me! I am not refering to…
Routing Crunch: Reliance-Flagtel to Neotel South Africa
Quick traceroute between Reliance and Neotel (South African subsidiary of Tata Communications) Using Reliance Mumbai node: You requested a Traceroute from Mumbai (62.216.135.130) to neotel.co.za (41.168.1.110) 1 ge-0-2-0.0.pjr02.mmb004.flagtel.com (85.95.25.70) 80.252 ms 79.822 ms 79.737 ms MPLS Label=351552 CoS=0 TTL=1 S=1 2 so-1-3-0.0.pjr02.hkg005.flagtel.com (85.95.25.118) 79.688 ms 79.717…
Skype Vs Gmail phone: Quick check on latency with IP-PSTN gateways
I usually find that Gmail phone performs lot better then Skype for calls to PSTN. Usually latency on Skype is high as compared to Gmail phone in India (in US it was almost no difference). I looked around today…
Script to keep track of IP address of machine
Just now realized that I have over few thousand files in “Latest IP” directory. This is result of poor workaround I created sometimes back to keep track of IP address. To fix it, I wrote a quick shell script…