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On the other hand one can see from a plot of ping Round Trip Time (RTT) from SLAC to the National Centre for Physics in Islamabad (NCP (see below) that during the month of October 2008 the RTT dropped from over 360ms to under 310ms.
Looking at the other Pakistani universities the median RTT seen from SLAC to about 18 Pakistani universities dropped from about 370ms to under 320ms between oct 2008 and April 2009, see below:
More details can be found in the pk-rtt.xlsxspreadsheet of the RTTs PingER measurements from SLAC to the Pakistani universities.
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