forum/Calculating Annex Cost by Ping Timesgit-annexhttp://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/Calculating_Annex_Cost_by_Ping_Times/git-annexikiwiki2013-11-27T22:47:37Zcomment 1http://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/Calculating_Annex_Cost_by_Ping_Times/comment_1_9b4a6bc8d52ecbbdd537e8cf76757a80/Richard2013-11-27T22:47:37Z2012-12-30T23:01:39Z
<p>You may want to use hop count, not ping times, for a rough guesstimate of distance.</p>
<p>Generally speaking, this is a highly non-trivial problem that's subject to university research projects so unless you find a well-maintained third party tool to solve this problem, it's unlikely that you will find a truly general solution.</p>
<p>Anyway, look into mtr for your distance measurements.</p>
<p>Richard</p>
comment 2http://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/Calculating_Annex_Cost_by_Ping_Times/comment_2_7e04f85c6ba74c18c8dde148aef9bf80/Andrew2013-11-27T22:47:37Z2013-01-06T11:08:42Z
Yeah, I was debating between ping times (max or avg) and hop count and ultimately went with ping time because of this situation: From my office to my house is ~12 hops but because we peer with the cable modem provider the ping time is still ~5ms. But from my cell modem, it's ~8 hops but ping times of ~200ms.