With all that is available on the Internet – from the video blogs of a mysterious ‘teenager’ to highly-anticipated $300 white boxes – it takes a certain type of nerd to dive into the minutiae of server performance. For them, there is The Internet Traffic Report. The ITR monitors the flow of data around the world, producing ratings of router speeds and reliability based on a 0 to 100 scale, updated every five minutes.

Finally, you can learn why your ping response time is up to 316 ms. Oh, it’s border0-e0.oc48-ypsi.hdl.com’s fault.

It’s a nice change of pace to look at the silicon backbone of virtual spaces and realize that everything here really is just ones and zeroes chasing each other across the globe.

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