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Re:Where's the fastest place to put my server? How much does... by pbhjpbhj on Thursday February 04, 2021 @04:27PM (#26030009)
Debugging high ping at home once mtr (or similar, I think it was a graphical tool) showed the first 5 or 6 hops all in the ISPs network and taking about ⅔ of the time; going from UK to USA and then leaving their network in Amsterdam IIRC only to terminate at another data-center in UK. Pretty crazy.

Ha, it only just struck me that could have been an NSA-type routing issue!?!

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Re:Where's the fastest place to put my server? How much does... by hinkley on Thursday February 04, 2021 @04:44PM (#26030148)
That reminds me of the bug in Google Maps where a route from southern Sweden to Norway suggested driving through the Chunnel and taking a car ferry across from Scotland.
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Re:Where's the fastest place to put my server? How much does... by WrtCdEvrydy on Thursday February 04, 2021 @04:56PM (#26030261)
The internet is supposed to be self-healing but the ISP routes are sometimes hella-dumb.

More than once I have seen a traceroute that takes you from Miami, down to Argentina and then back up to Cali.

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