[LINK] Latency across Australia

[Richard Chirgwin]

My bet would be the extra routing between Perth and Sydney (where the 
Internet gateway probably is).

Cheers,
RC

On 28/04/11 11:56 AM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> Many years ago, on a visit to Perth, I noticed the
> difference in response times of a Sydney based corporate
> application.
>
> Now, it seems that response times via the Internet are also
> much poorer than Sydney. The 3G Internet dongle connects in
> Perth as well as it does in Sydney. But the usual sites I
> access, in Sydney, are performing very noticeably worse.
>
> Anyone care to comment/speculate on whether thehough the
> local poor performance is due to capacity, route (via
> singapore/satellite), distance related latency or something
> else.
>
> Marghanita