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However on 3/22/2011 the route to RIKEN went westwards across the Pacific and the RTT was very stable with Min/Avg/Max/Stdev 131.985/132.173/132.607/0.443 ms for 148 pings. The routes to the University of OSAKA and the University of TOKYO were similar.
Theroute from SLAC to RIKEN on April 6th (i.e. after the step change from 135ms to 200ms on March 24th) went from SLAC eastwards through Sunnyvale, Denver ,Kansas, Clevland, Boston to the Avenue of the Americas in New Yor York and then to Japan. This trip eastward across the US added an extra 60-70ms to the RTT.