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Well, there's Canada, Ireland, and the English-speaking islands of the Caribbean, also. The equatorial African nations aren't that much farther away than Great
by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Well, there's Canada, Ireland, and the English-speaking islands of the Caribbean, also.
The equatorial African nations aren't that much farther away than Great Britain.
Of course that does still leave out Southern Africa, India and Australia.
- aragilar 2y agoThere's great-circle distance and then there's internet-cable distance though (I'm not sure what the path to equatorial Africa is for example, but I can imagine it being bad and not direct at all). But yes, I primarily thinking Asia/Oceania (you forgot New Zealand! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/02/jacinda-ardern-asks-why-new-zealand-is-left-off-world-maps-in-new-tourism-campaign https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/02/jacinda-ardern...), given that people do forget how big the world is, and how noticeable the latency is.
- Turing_Machine 2y ago> I'm not sure what the path to equatorial Africa is for example, but I can imagine it being bad and not direct at all I realized that I didn't actually know, either. https://mybroadband.co.za/news/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/TeleGeography-submarine-cable-map.jpg https://mybroadband.co.za/news/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Te... I don't know how credible this map is, but it appears to match all the others I was able to find in a quick image search. I picked this one because it's larger and shows more detail than some of the others. It looks like equatorial Africa is reasonably well connected to the Americas and Europe. I'm sure connectivity is crap once you get out of the large coastal cities, but on the other hand it's pretty crap in Alaska and the Canadian interior, too (at least before Starlink came along).