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Having stayed at a couple of the reviewed hotels in Brazil that get a good rating, you would think everything was fine. But latency is a HUGE problem in Brazil
by alister 12y ago
Having stayed at a couple of the reviewed hotels in Brazil that get a good rating, you would think everything was fine.
But latency is a HUGE problem in Brazil[1], and in probably any country that's far removed from the major backbones.
Yes, I can watch Youtube just fine in Brazil but I can't tell you the number of times that Skype video or other highly interactive apps wouldn't start or conk out because of poor latency.
The public has no comprehension of latency, but it's really important that this gets factored in somehow, especially for places like Brazil that generally have poor latency.
[1] http://brazilsense.com/index.php?title=Wi-Fi_and_Internet_service_in_Brazil http://brazilsense.com/index.php?title=Wi-Fi_and_Internet_se...
- colinbartlett 12y agoI am really surprised to hear Brazil is far removed from backbones, being the most populous Latin American county by a massive margin.
- alister 12y agoBrazil is far from the economic center of the Internet. South Korea, a country with 1/4 of the population of Brazil, is probably better connected because it's on the route to Japan, China, etc. Brazil's poor latency may be partly explained by the fact that a lot of their connections have to go through the US and Canada: "The shape of the Internet varies considerably when examining individual regions. In Europe, the majority of cross-border capacity is between European countries, while in Latin America and the Caribbean the majority of international capacity is connected to the U.S. & Canada."[1] "More than 80% of Africa's and Latin America's international Internet bandwidth connect to cities outside their regions. In the case of Latin America, 60% of the region's interregional capacity connects to a single city, Miami."[2] Also, because of Brazil's distance from the economic center of the Internet, they probably don't get the advantage of unpaid peering relationships. [1] http://www.telegeography.com/assets/website/images/maps/global-internet-map-2010/global-internet-map-2010-x.jpg http://www.telegeography.com/assets/website/images/maps/glob... [2] http://www.telegeography.com/assets/website/images/maps/global-internet-map-2012/global-internet-map-2012-x.png http://www.telegeography.com/assets/website/images/maps/glob...
- seanmcdirmid 12y ago> South Korea, a country with 1/4 of the population of Brazil, is probably better connected because it's on the route to Japan, China, etc. Why would proximity to China matter? They probably have the worst internet in Asia (outside of DPRK of course).
- jmccree 12y agoPerhaps they are including Hong Kong which has a huge number of cable landings.