Andy wrote:

That's not to say we aren't thinking of ways to catalogue and measure the benefits of having the exchanges. Perhaps measures of the round trip times between various points on the network would be of more interest.

A job for the lads at Waikato's WAND group funded by InternetNZ?

We'd love to do that. We'd probably use amp (see http://watt.nlanr.net/active). Tony ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony McGregor Mail: T.McGregor(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz Department of Computer Science Phone: +64 7 838 4651 Waikato University Fax: +64 7 858 5095(w) +64 7 825 5047(h) Private Bag 3105 Home: +64 7 825 5040 mobile: (021)313004 Hamilton, New Zealand www: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~tonym ----------------------------------------------------------------------------