physical distances vs. net distances
Janina Sajka
janina at rednote.net
Wed Jul 6 18:14:22 UTC 2005
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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