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Out of the nodes that PingER monitors in Nepal one is connected through Indian BSNL VSNL (koshi.ioe.edu.np) with a average RTT of 330 ms.This host shifted from satellite to Indian VSNL on 20th Janruary, 2007. The other one is connected directly to New York through a Satellite link (most.gov.np) with an average RTT of 550 ms. Our HostSearcher tool found 25 sites in Nepal with min RTT > 500 ms, so these results indicate that still most of the country is dependent on satellite link.
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