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Aside: 15 years ago all of our employee laptops passed all of their traffic over our own VPN. One of my employees wanted to quantify how much having all our tr

Aside: 15 years ago all of our employee laptops passed all of their traffic over our own VPN. One of my employees wanted to quantify how much having all our traffic go to our server space was slowing it down. He ran a series of tests comparing latency and throughput of directly visiting sites on his home Comcast connection, vs. the VPN. Generally, the VPN was significantly faster. I wasn't entirely surprised by this. Our facility had multiple high quality connections (Level-3, InterNAP), and one of those traffic optimizers that would add intelligence beyond just BGP.

jrockway 7y ago
That is my experience today. My Linode is a lot closer to things on the Internet than my Spectrum connection. For example, if I ping the US/Central Overwatch server, it's 50ms from my home connection and 20ms from my Linode (which is 11ms away from home). It is sometimes as much as 26ms to the first hop after my router, though, which is pretty amazing. That's enough time for light to travel 5000 miles.