Networking in Asia seems to be really complicated due to the various political interests in play. I remember our Cloudflare rep explaining that China had two or

Networking in Asia seems to be really complicated due to the various political interests in play. I remember our Cloudflare rep explaining that China had two or three telcos that refused to exchange traffic directly so you had to send everything through Japan and back to the telco you wanted in China. I’ve always wondered how all the expats in Bali accomplish anything. Everybody says they can work remotely via the internet and run their businesses, but when I was there the internet would go down for the entire island frequently and could be down for minutes or hours.