15 August, 2010

I'm a big fan of the
Smokeping
project developed by Tobi Oetiker, and I use it to graph ICMP, DNS, and HTTP round trip
times for my local internet connections and also for cipherdyne.org. Since the beginning
of 2010, I've switched around where cipherdyne.org was hosted from a system at a hosting
provider in Canada to a system running on my home network (serviced by a Verizon FiOS
connection). The drop in RTT's in mid-February was expected and quite large - going
from an average of around 200ms down to about 20ms. Then, in June, I switched to a
different Verizon DSL connection and moved the cipherdyne.org webserver system to a
newer Verizon FiOS connection at a different location, and the RTT's went up a bit to
about 50ms. Here is the graph: