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The UAE's connectivity isn't actually bad. Latency to most of SEA is quite good (50ms to India, 80ms to Singapore). But for what I assume to be political reaso
by ehhthing 4y ago
The UAE's connectivity isn't actually bad. Latency to most of SEA is quite good (50ms to India, 80ms to Singapore).
But for what I assume to be political reasons latency to Europe is about 20 or 30ms higher then what it could be .
When I was there, I could get sub 100ms latency to France using a Wireguard tunnel to an AWS server in Bahrain, while direct connections were closer to 120-130ms.
Overall though, I found connectivity in the UAE to be absolutely fine by middle eastern standards.
- rippercushions 4y agoSure, the connectivity itself is fine, the thing that's pathetic is that the only reason they ban calls is to try to protect Etisalat's long-distance phone revenue and to funnel people into its paid alternatives (are they still charging from Botim?).