Quite fast
Since Friday the new 2 mbps dedicated Internet access is working now and the first experience is quite a pleasant one. It's fast, ping times from Panama to the US or to Europe are much shorter than over cable modem as before.
Here a traceroute to Tampa, Florida in the US:
traceroute to www.caimito.net (207.150.163.124), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 192.168.10.1 (192.168.10.1) 1.768 ms 1.130 ms 1.019 ms 2 host-200-115-165-209.optynex.com (200.115.165.209) 2.052 ms 2.037 ms 2.649 ms 3 ge-2-1-0-501.ar1.pty1.gblx.net (208.51.117.169) 2.342 ms 2.996 ms 2.600 ms 4 so1-0-0-2488m.ar2.tpa1.gblx.net (67.17.66.169) 74.603 ms 75.025 ms 74.205 ms 5 lightspeed-ip-inc-triple-8.ge-3-0-0.ar2.tpa1.gblx.net (64.214.175.194) 74.942 ms 74.424 ms 74.435 ms 6 gige3.ds03a.tpa.sagonet.net (65.110.32.70) 75.489 ms 75.522 ms 74.846 ms 7 unknown.sagonet.net (207.150.163.124) 75.027 ms 75.679 ms 75.431 ms
And to Germany:
traceroute to www.heise.de (193.99.144.85), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 192.168.10.1 (192.168.10.1) 1.706 ms 1.038 ms 1.340 ms 2 host-200-115-165-209.optynex.com (200.115.165.209) 2.248 ms 2.388 ms 2.286 ms 3 ge-2-1-0-501.ar1.pty1.gblx.net (208.51.117.169) 2.352 ms 2.930 ms 2.640 ms 4 so4-0-0-2488m.ar2.fra2.gblx.net (67.17.65.78) 152.354 ms 139.273 ms 140.302 ms 5 plusline-ag-ip-services.ge-1-2-0.408.ar2.fra2.gblx.net (208.49.181.90) 159.152 ms 158.475 ms 158.795 ms 6 heise2.f.de.plusline.net (213.83.46.196) 161.429 ms 162.020 ms 161.908 ms
An interesting detail is this:
Optynex has deployed a fiber optics network based on Ethernet throughout Panama City, Panama, and connects customers with a simple TX-FX converter and a managed switch on the customer premises. If you look closely at the picture, you will see that the 100 mbps LED on the switch is illuminated. So we actually have a 100 mbps connection to the other side and only get shaped down to 2 mbps. There is some room to grow ;-)
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