[LINK] Latency across Australia & to Europe....

[Martin Barry]

$quoted_author = "Marghanita da Cruz" ;
> 
> However, as Richard pointed out the routing plays a part and

It does, however even in the suboptimal situation where your traffic was
crossing from the mobile carriers network to the Internet in a single place
in Australia (i.e. Sydney) it doesn't appear that it would make a lot of
difference reaching international sites as a lot of the connectivity is from
there even if you are in Perth. Accessing local sites on the other end would
be a different story, especially if there is an extra Perth->Sydney->Perth
in there.


> If you are still in Europe, it would be interesting to know
> what the hops are to uwa.edu.au or ecu.edu.au (assuming
> these are hosted in Perth) vs syd.edu.au or uts.edu.au (assuming
> these are hosted in Sydney) - or doesn't it matter because of
> AARNET?

AARNET appears to have connectivity to Singapore
(http://www.aarnet.edu.au/aarnet3.aspx) but of all the Perth sites I've
tested from here in Frankfurt all have gone via the USA and Sydney.

e.g.

  3. 62.96.203.153                               0.0%     5    2.6   2.6 0.4   6.2   2.4
  4. 217.111.108.109                             0.0%     5    1.2   3.1 1.2   7.0   2.4
  5. ge3-0-0-pr2.fra.router.colt.net             0.0%     5    9.0   7.5 5.3   9.0   1.8
  6. xe-1-2-0.mpr1.fra4.de.above.net             0.0%     5    4.2  14.8 4.2  43.0  16.5
  7. xe-0-0-0.mpr1.fra3.de.above.net             0.0%     5    2.5   8.2 2.5  23.7   8.8
  8. xe-0-1-0.mpr1.cdg11.fr.above.net            0.0%     5   23.4  15.5 11.8  23.4   4.9
  9. xe-3-1-0.mpr1.lhr2.uk.above.net             0.0%     5   23.2  20.6 18.4  23.2   2.2
 10. so-1-1-0.mpr1.dca2.us.above.net             0.0%     5   90.8  91.2 90.8  91.8   0.4
 11. xe-1-3-0.cr1.dca2.us.above.net              0.0%     5   94.1  92.9 91.5  94.5   1.4
 12. xe-1-3-0.cr1.iah1.us.above.net              0.0%     5  148.4 134.1 118.7 148.4  12.5
 13. xe-2-0-0.cr1.lax112.us.above.net            0.0%     5  151.0 161.0 150.5 195.9  19.5
 14. xe-2-1-0.cr1.sjc2.us.above.net              0.0%     5  159.6 160.0 158.1 161.9   1.5
 15. xe-0-1-0.er1.sjc2.us.above.net              0.0%     5  157.1 158.7 157.1 161.8   2.1
 16. 64.125.193.134.i223.above.net               0.0%     5  303.2 303.2 302.4 304.7   0.9
 17. ge-6-0-0.bb1.b.syd.aarnet.net.au            0.0%     5  302.8 303.8 302.6 306.5   1.6
 18. so-2-0-0.bb1.a.mel.aarnet.net.au            0.0%     5  317.0 317.1 316.2 317.9   0.7
 19. so-2-0-0.bb1.a.adl.aarnet.net.au            0.0%     5  323.6 325.2 323.6 328.3   2.1
 20. so-0-1-0.bb1.a.per.aarnet.net.au            0.0%     5  350.9 352.7 350.9 354.4   1.9
 21. gigabitethernet0.er1.uwa.cpe.aarnet.net.au  0.0%     5  356.0 359.4 351.3 375.1  10.6
 22. gw1.er1.uwa.cpe.aarnet.net.au               0.0%     5  351.7 369.7 351.6 420.7  34.1
 23. matrix.uwa.edu.au                           0.0%     5  351.4 353.1 351.4 355.0   1.9


There may be a network who has a path to Europe via Asia and the Middle East
and prefers it over the USA but I am yet to find an example of it.

cheers
Marty