Request for RIPE Atlas credits - CS student at ETH Zürich
Hi all, My name is Nikolas Kühnlein and I am a computer science student at ETH Zürich, currently taking a course on computer networks. As part of my studies I have been exploring traceroute analysis and IP geolocation using latency triangulation — specifically trying to verify the physical location of intermediate hops using RTT measurements from distributed vantage points, rather than relying on WHOIS or commercial geolocation databases. I recently discovered RIPE IPmap and was impressed by how accurately it placed a Google border router in Zürich (contradicting a WHOIS record pointing to Mountain View, CA). I would like to run my own ping measurements from European probes to a small set of hop IPs from my traceroutes, to understand the triangulation method hands-on. As a new user I have no credits, and I am looking for a small donation to get started — a few million credits would be more than enough for what I have in mind. My RIPE Atlas account is registered under: nikshop@takuu.de I am happy to share my findings with the community. Thank you in advance for any help. Best regards, Nikolas Kühnlein ETH Zürich
25,000,000 transfered David -- https://dprall.net On 3/30/2026 7:56 AM, Nikolas Kühnlein via ripe-atlas wrote:
Hi all,
My name is Nikolas Kühnlein and I am a computer science student at ETH Zürich, currently taking a course on computer networks.
As part of my studies I have been exploring traceroute analysis and IP geolocation using latency triangulation — specifically trying to verify the physical location of intermediate hops using RTT measurements from distributed vantage points, rather than relying on WHOIS or commercial geolocation databases.
I recently discovered RIPE IPmap and was impressed by how accurately it placed a Google border router in Zürich (contradicting a WHOIS record pointing to Mountain View, CA). I would like to run my own ping measurements from European probes to a small set of hop IPs from my traceroutes, to understand the triangulation method hands-on.
As a new user I have no credits, and I am looking for a small donation to get started — a few million credits would be more than enough for what I have in mind.
My RIPE Atlas account is registered under: nikshop@takuu.de
I am happy to share my findings with the community. Thank you in advance for any help.
Best regards, Nikolas Kühnlein ETH Zürich
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Another 25M sent. Trevor On Mon, Mar 30, 2026 at 8:28 AM David Prall via ripe-atlas < ripe-atlas@ripe.net> wrote:
25,000,000 transfered
David
On 3/30/2026 7:56 AM, Nikolas Kühnlein via ripe-atlas wrote:
Hi all,
My name is Nikolas Kühnlein and I am a computer science student at ETH Zürich, currently taking a course on computer networks.
As part of my studies I have been exploring traceroute analysis and IP geolocation using latency triangulation — specifically trying to verify the physical location of intermediate hops using RTT measurements from distributed vantage points, rather than relying on WHOIS or commercial geolocation databases.
I recently discovered RIPE IPmap and was impressed by how accurately it placed a Google border router in Zürich (contradicting a WHOIS record pointing to Mountain View, CA). I would like to run my own ping measurements from European probes to a small set of hop IPs from my traceroutes, to understand the triangulation method hands-on.
As a new user I have no credits, and I am looking for a small donation to get started — a few million credits would be more than enough for what I have in mind.
My RIPE Atlas account is registered under: nikshop@takuu.de
I am happy to share my findings with the community. Thank you in advance for any help.
Best regards, Nikolas Kühnlein ETH Zürich
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Another 10M sent tim On Mon, Mar 30, 2026 at 8:40 AM Trevor Goodyear <trevor.goodyear@gmail.com> wrote:
Another 25M sent.
Trevor
On Mon, Mar 30, 2026 at 8:28 AM David Prall via ripe-atlas < ripe-atlas@ripe.net> wrote:
25,000,000 transfered
David
On 3/30/2026 7:56 AM, Nikolas Kühnlein via ripe-atlas wrote:
Hi all,
My name is Nikolas Kühnlein and I am a computer science student at ETH Zürich, currently taking a course on computer networks.
As part of my studies I have been exploring traceroute analysis and IP geolocation using latency triangulation — specifically trying to verify the physical location of intermediate hops using RTT measurements from distributed vantage points, rather than relying on WHOIS or commercial geolocation databases.
I recently discovered RIPE IPmap and was impressed by how accurately it placed a Google border router in Zürich (contradicting a WHOIS record pointing to Mountain View, CA). I would like to run my own ping measurements from European probes to a small set of hop IPs from my traceroutes, to understand the triangulation method hands-on.
As a new user I have no credits, and I am looking for a small donation to get started — a few million credits would be more than enough for what I have in mind.
My RIPE Atlas account is registered under: nikshop@takuu.de
I am happy to share my findings with the community. Thank you in advance for any help.
Best regards, Nikolas Kühnlein ETH Zürich
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Hi Nikolas, those 60 M in total from David, Trevor and Tim are enough already. If not, I more than willing to open my stash, too. Besides this: happy and successful researching! Cheers, -C. On 30.03.2026 13:56, Nikolas Kühnlein via ripe-atlas wrote:
Hi all,
My name is Nikolas Kühnlein and I am a computer science student at ETH Zürich, currently taking a course on computer networks.
As part of my studies I have been exploring traceroute analysis and IP geolocation using latency triangulation — specifically trying to verify the physical location of intermediate hops using RTT measurements from distributed vantage points, rather than relying on WHOIS or commercial geolocation databases.
I recently discovered RIPE IPmap and was impressed by how accurately it placed a Google border router in Zürich (contradicting a WHOIS record pointing to Mountain View, CA). I would like to run my own ping measurements from European probes to a small set of hop IPs from my traceroutes, to understand the triangulation method hands-on.
As a new user I have no credits, and I am looking for a small donation to get started — a few million credits would be more than enough for what I have in mind.
My RIPE Atlas account is registered under: nikshop@takuu.de
I am happy to share my findings with the community. Thank you in advance for any help.
Best regards, Nikolas Kühnlein ETH Zürich
participants (5)
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Carsten Schiefner -
David Prall -
Nikolas Kühnlein -
Tim Wicinski -
Trevor Goodyear