I would like to suggest, in the next firmware update, the option of choosing which data center one can use to connect to mysqueezebox.com.
In my own case, being located outside the USA, I understand that I am assigned to the Frankfurt data center. Having done numerous speed tests and ping tests, I can confirm that the connection between Hong Kong and Europe is noticeably inferior to the connection between Hong Kong and almost any server in the USA, by a factor of two or more. I suspect that this is true for anyone located in east Asia, since most traffic from this region is routed through either Hong Kong, the Philippines or Taiwan, which are then directly connected by numerous trunk cables to the US west coast. In fact, when I do visual traceroutes to de.mysqueezebox.com (using the IP 89.202.121.133; I hope that's correct), the routing is through the USA for the first 5 to 8 stops before it goes to Frankfurt and then back to the USA. For this reason, I would like to somehow force my SB3 to connect to a North American server directly for mysb.com. But I don't have that option. What's more, as many Europeans here have noted, there have been teething problems with European servers. If a server is malfunctioning or overloaded, then those people really should have the option of trying to connect to another server. -- billingsgate www.humorist.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------ billingsgate's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2822 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82921 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezenetwork
