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Posted by prox, from Sarasota, on December 20, 2008 at 22:45 local (server) time

So, I hitched a ride down to Florida today with my parents.  Since I didn't drive, I was on the Internet most of the time with my Eee and Nokia E71, using JoikuSpot.  Connectivity over AT&Tingular's network was via EDGE most of the time, with UMTS becoming available when passing major cities.

SmokePing graph of the trip from nonce over OpenVPN:

ATT to nonce

Most of the PL is apparently due to the oh-so-buggy ad-hoc support in the iwl4965 driver that I'm using from compat-wireless.  My kernel kept spitting back this junk for almost every packet:

[189698.924802] wlan0: beacon TSF higher than local TSF - IBSS merge with BSSID 2a:16:66:1f:8a:61
[189699.240352] wlan0: beacon TSF higher than local TSF - IBSS merge with BSSID 2a:16:66:1f:8a:61

Dunno.  At least I'm in the sunny state new…

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