Skype Latency and Comcast Connection in Tokyo
The hosts open the program from Tokyo, Japan, discussing technical difficulties involving Skype latency and internet routing. One host switches from a Sonic.net connection to Comcast to improve the ping times to Asia. They note the irony of the connection failing only after the pre-show ends and the recording begins.
skype· tokyo· comcast· sonic net· latency· japan· internet connection
00:00 Coming to you from the top of the Kremlin, this is The Voice of Russia. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak It's Sunday May 18th 2014 it's time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination episode 618 This is no agenda Still coming to you from the future here in the Hot Pocket Wasabi Tour Love Hotel In the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry Curry and stepping all over him because I have to because of the latency. I'm John C DeVore Wow nailed it It was so tight You couldn't you could not fit a needle in between us There's a ton of late. I started talking on the word hurry yeah, I'm as soon as he says that boom my head
00:48 Yeah, and then what's really interesting is we can do a half hour pre-show getting ready and the minute we start then the whole Skype connection falls apart. Yeah it's really unbelievable It's almost unfair. What? That's okay, try again. Just keep going it seems... I just got an internet connection problem error Ah okay so that-I thought so! I'm looking at... On Skype on Skype Yeah but it's gotta be you
01:26 Why? Because, you know I'm in Japan where everything is awesome. It's Japan! Oh yes right you're on this ridiculous high band what they have over there in Asia Yeah well and I'm looking at the ping times and everything's okay it's just...I don't know You're on your regular connection? Yeah yeah. I can go to Comcast if you want Wow, that might be interesting to try. Oh maybe later. Anyway it is 19 minutes past midnight here in Tokyo And it is episode 618 of the best podcast in the universe, trying our best to keep it all together. And you are... what's hour? Yeah. You're in the morning. Which is fine! It's not that late but I usually do the pre-show in the morning and so I had to get up earlier
02:21 Okay, but I'm in a better mood than it was last time. Oh you know it's funny some people commented on your mood Yeah They said I was in a bad mood yeah because that was stuck with this latency I'm talking away yak-yak-yak and then you say and then you throw it to me And then there's an hour lag and I say what? Yaksa more You know let's try Comcast oh you think that's gonna help I don't know John This is uh this is pretty pathetic Okay, it's worth it. Uh yeah I can decide actually actually I could almost do it on the fly so we can keep talking uh-huh Yeah, no serious. I can go to the network connection sharing center Just turn off this network okay, and you think the Skype connection will just keep working oh
03:09 You know stranger things have happened. Okay? Well, I'm marking the time down for to edit this out in case it becomes boring of course Of course they got a figure out because every one of these computers I have had the different you know They why doesn't Windows just stay with the same you know bet basic interfaces It's just beyond me okay here we go this gets shut off Disabled disabling okay disabling as we speak. I'm looking at his connection He still seems to be there and it was kind of interesting too Play with this. Okay, you've disabled are you still there? All right marking the time down that was really weird just before we started 18 19 20 oh your back and I didn't do anything yeah well it did reconnect Yeah, well okay, but I didn't tell him telling you interestingly enough And this is uh this is internet type stuff You might think that Sonic net which you're normally on
04:12 May just not have the routes to Japan that Comcast would have. Comcast might be more Japanese-centric! Yeah, and you sound... I'll have to say, You've never sounded better on Comcast Well there you have it. I'll send them the memo because i'm always complaining to them Oh, don't worry. I'm sure something will screw up eventually This is the reason that you need multiple connections. I was listening to the FCC hearings yes and one of the people said well then you get this and it's like a it's a It's a monopoly of they had some weird term They used did you did you get clips because you? You wrote about this in your uh in your newsletter update. I got the one clip of this long way
