Re: [tlug] Is Japan closer to U.S. or ...?

[Darren Cook <darren@example.com>]

>> In terms of internet distance, is a server hosted in Western U.S. or
>> Singapore closer to Japan?  Ping times, available bandwidth, latency:
>> I'm not too worried about how exactly "closer" is defined.
> 
> RTT to the Singtel IX is about 70 ms. over NTT, which is what most
> providers are using for transit to Singapore. US west coast tends to be
> around 100 ms. so Singapore is probably the better option.

Thanks for the replies, (and the small difference is noted).

Jim Breen wrote:
> And which applications running over TCP do you think perform
> perceptively better with a 30ms shorter RTT?

Ilya's book is worth a cover-to-cover read, but this section covers the
importance of latency:

http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000545/ch10.html#LATENCY_BOTTLENECK

(The context is that this is http 1.1, and a major motivator for the
development of http 2.0)

Darren

P.S. As some early holiday entertainment, "tar czf a.tar *" and I just
saved the world. Phew. :-)
   http://xkcd.com/1168/