physical distances vs. net distances

[Janina Sajka]

I have noticed really good performance from a server in Ireland, where
other servers geographically close to me here in Maryland are doing far
more poorly. Go figure.

david writes:
> Jeff's comment about grabbing from a local mirror got me thinking about 
> distances to mirrors. So, I tried tracing the route to my local 
> University of Wisconsin, Madison mirror about 5 Miles down the road in 
> the Comp. Sci. building.  For some odd reason sbcglobal is routing that 
> traffic through Chicago, Ill and back, about a 300 mile round trip.  
> Pinging is fast and my dsl line to always maxed out.  There must be some 
> bizarrely fat pipes between Madison and Chicago;  I might as well look 
> for a mirror in Chicago.
> -dtf
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