On 2013-02-05 19:31 , Andreas Fink wrote: > side note: I was testing LTE in Basel. Speed is lower than 3G (like > 3-5M/sec) I wondered why as my friends in Finland get like 40M/s
LTE is not deployed yet for real in Switzerland... Note also that for instance > What spring to my mind however is that the speed test tools do in > fact measure speed with local providers around the corner. And as far > as I know, swisscom doesn't peer on SwissIX with them so it might > very likley be a similar ping-pong through somewhere else in europe > or USA which is potentially ruining the speed. Of course it could > simply be not enough capacity inside the mobile network. Did you try a traceroute? >From my experience Swisscom is doing great peering with most destinations that I use, be those local or remote (eg the US). (the only thing one could say is that some goes over Geneva, but that is apparently where their DSL handoff happens) > My point is: PEERING PAYS OFF. No matter how "evli" your competitor > might look like, both save money and gain speed. Even ISP's in other > parts of the world have started to realize that its stupid to send > off traffic across continents just because they don't like the > competitor. You are missing the important point about peering: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUYdi43qXHc Oh and of course if you 'cut off' your competitor that might just be a business case for a customer to go to you or them, next to them not being tier-1 enough.... Also, do calculate into the equation the cost of the interfaces needed to have traffic transfer at one or the other location. In the end though it is a penis game... Greets, Jeroen _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list swinog@lists.swinog.ch http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
