Re: Virgin Media to possibly peer with LINX (London Internet Exchange)
 

I have seen weird routing myself with other isps.

eg. on ukonline (easynet) I was going to leaseweb via cogent, congestion galore on the route. It turned out easynet peer with AMS-IX directly (leaseweb also do), leaseweb noticed easynet had preferenced cogent so turned of cogent on the route for me and I now go over a congestion free direct peering link. Easynet didnt respond so I was lucky leaseweb were cooperative.

I expect traffic for leaseweb to ams-ix is free and cogent is not, hence them also keen to switch the routing.

Re: Virgin Media to possibly peer with LINX (London Internet Exchange)
 

Has there been any official word from VM to say that the link will go ahead?

Re: Virgin Media to possibly peer with LINX (London Internet Exchange)
 

Apparently its up to Virgin now but since the e-mails they have done nothing and VM - OVH traffic still uses DTAG (German provider) which is costing them a significant amount of money.