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VSAT. Here is the complete story
Out of the nodes that PingER monitors in Nepal one is connected through Indian BSNL (koshi.ioe.edu.np) with a average RTT of 330 ms
The other one is connected directly to New York through a Satellite link (most.gov.np) with an average RTT of 550 ms.
MOSAIC The Global Diffusion of the Internet Project
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