You can get a feel for this by running netstat -tn and then running a traceroute to each connection you currently have open. For example, my connection to news

You can get a feel for this by running netstat -tn and then running a traceroute to each connection you currently have open. For example, my connection to news.ycombinator.com takes this path: Salt Lake City Denver Dallas Houston My connection to en.wikipedia.org takes the same first three hops and seems to end in a data center in Dallas.