There used to be a site somewhere (I think Andover or Keynote sucked up the domain, but it was a while ago) that had a very nice little script that pinged IP addresses and presented the visitor with average latency to those addresses. Looked something like this:
UUNet (x.x.x.x) -> 38 ms (green) C&W (x.x.x.x) -> 68 ms (yellow) AOL (x.x.x.x) -> 400 ms (red)
ratings.miq.net www.internetweather.com ? Actually, the latter seems to have been borged by (was always a part of?) the former. It may have also been netcopter.com, which is now dead... Eddy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division Phone: +1 (316) 794-8922 Wichita/(Inter)national Phone: +1 (785) 865-5885 Lawrence --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:23:58 +0000 (GMT) From: A Trap <blacklist@brics.com> To: blacklist@brics.com Subject: Please ignore this portion of my mail signature. These last few lines are a trap for address-harvesting spambots. Do NOT send mail to <blacklist@brics.com>, or you are likely to be blocked.