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That's ridiculously good. I'm paying $120AUD/month for 100 megabit down / 40 up. It's far better than the 8/1 I had before but I can exceed the monthly traffic

That's ridiculously good. I'm paying $120AUD/month for 100 megabit down / 40 up. It's far better than the 8/1 I had before but I can exceed the monthly traffic quota in 45 minutes or less! What's the speed like going out of the country? Where are the big peering points?

nordify 11y ago
> What's the speed like going out of the country? Full line rate round the clock. > Where are the big peering points? The main local IX is FICIX. The main Swedish IX Netnod in Stockholm is 8 ms away. Netnod is the 10th largest IX in the world. A new direct subsea cable to Germany just got built and it will bring DE-CIX, the largest IX In the world closer. Russia is also close. Google and Yandex both built datacenters in Finland to serve Russia and Northern Europe. Facebook put theirs in Sweden for the same reason.
- voltagex_ 11y ago
  Thanks for this. It's really interesting moving to a fast connection - latency becomes far more important than bandwidth. I'd totally read a write-up about latency and peering around the world, but I might be the only one.
  - nordify 11y ago
    There's been a lot written on peering. Dr. Peering has a lot on his website, perhaps not so much regarding latency but lots and lots on peering in general. Googling for publications will also get you a lot of interesting stuff.
Zigurd 11y ago
That's because Finland's low-density areas are cold whereas Australia's are hot, and hot bits are vastly more expensive to transmit. It can't possibly be that one country's SPs were more effective at buying politicians. Because lobbying (i.e. legal cover for bribery) would never cause that to happen.
- nordify 11y ago
  I almost choked on my coffee before I understood this was written in jest :) Well done! More seriously one historic contributing factor was probably that Finland had small, local monopolies that provided services locally and each had both local owners and local pride. There wasn't just one large state monopoly as in most other countries. Later competition blossomed quite well once the monopolies were removed.

nordify 11y ago

> What's the speed like going out of the country? Full line rate round the clock. > Where are the big peering points? The main local IX is FICIX. The main Swedish IX Netnod in Stockholm is 8 ms away. Netnod is the 10th largest IX in the world. A new direct subsea cable to Germany just got built and it will bring DE-CIX, the largest IX In the world closer. Russia is also close. Google and Yandex both built datacenters in Finland to serve Russia and Northern Europe. Facebook put theirs in Sweden for the same reason.

voltagex_ 11y ago
Thanks for this. It's really interesting moving to a fast connection - latency becomes far more important than bandwidth. I'd totally read a write-up about latency and peering around the world, but I might be the only one.
- nordify 11y ago
  There's been a lot written on peering. Dr. Peering has a lot on his website, perhaps not so much regarding latency but lots and lots on peering in general. Googling for publications will also get you a lot of interesting stuff.

Zigurd 11y ago

That's because Finland's low-density areas are cold whereas Australia's are hot, and hot bits are vastly more expensive to transmit. It can't possibly be that one country's SPs were more effective at buying politicians. Because lobbying (i.e. legal cover for bribery) would never cause that to happen.

nordify 11y ago
I almost choked on my coffee before I understood this was written in jest :) Well done! More seriously one historic contributing factor was probably that Finland had small, local monopolies that provided services locally and each had both local owners and local pride. There wasn't just one large state monopoly as in most other countries. Later competition blossomed quite well once the monopolies were removed.