...
On Aug 1, 2009 at about 23:00 hours GMT the RTTs averaged over a day, from SLAC to www.ternet.or.tz ch changed from about 730ms to about 350ms, see below: 
. After about a day it reverted back again. The traceroute when the RTT had reverted back shows the route going through Telia and newskies, a satellite services provider. On August 3, 15:00 hours www.ku.ac.ke dropped to about 370ms, the earlier step change from 650ms to 550ms may have been since only one direction of the route was using the terrestrial line.
www.ternet.or.tz | www.ku.ac.ke |
|
|
|---|---|---|---|
| |
|
|
However after a day or so the RTT reverted back to the former value. A traceroute when the RTTs were long shows the route going via Telia and the Newskies satellite network.