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

[dikshie <dikshie@example.com>]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Darren Cook <darren@example.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> (I was going to setup some ec2 nodes in various places and run some ping
> tests, but that is a couple of hours work, and I thought someone might
> already have done this and published results.)

this may relevant:
"A Longitudinal and Cross-Dataset Study of Internet Latency and Path Stability"
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2014/EECS-2014-172.html


Best Regards,

Dikshie