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Originally Posted by Jumping
Similar ping to what I get seems Preston is a good site to test to must be good routing to there.
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Preston is good for VM customers because it's hosted on VM's own network, and a relatively decent part of it too.
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Originally Posted by Jumping
Will be interesting to see if our ping goes down once they open the Edinbugh LINX peering should be good not to have to go through England all the time...
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WTF is Edinburgh LINX? LINX is London Internet eXchange. London is not in Edinburgh.
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Originally Posted by Martin Dee 11
So if i have got this right LINX will instill it's equipment in a up & running data center at your work Jumping. So lets say IXScotland goes live September will virgin move straight onto it or will they wait for a couple of months.
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We already have a major IXP in Scotland and Virgin already connect to it, as do most other major ISPs.
Chances are if they build a new one, it'll be right next to the old one, which also happens to be right next VM's biggest datacentre in Scotland anyway. I doubt they'll take much time to "move straight onto it" when they're already sat next door.
Then again everything VM does around here is either slow or to save money, and this doesn't save them much money so go figure...
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Originally Posted by craigj2k12
Virgin and routing tend not to go together very well
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Hah.
Indeed, VM has had interconnects in Scotland with all the major providers for years and yet uses none of them for consumer broadband.
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Originally Posted by Jumping
Well a lot of the traffic if Virgin's routing behaves as it should it should then go through Edinburgh out to the world which should save having to do down to London etc. Happy routing days indeed!
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There's very little "the world" reachable from Edinburgh for any data to go. The only traffic that VM would benefit from sending over the link is to central and northern Scotland, which bluntly speaking, contains nothing of internetery significance.
For all other traffic, it is of benefit to VM to keep it on their own network as far as possible, which means taking it down to London or Amsterdam internally and routing it out from there.
Even at the biggest Scottish universities - the biggest non-ISP data carriers around, with thousands of internal servers and a captive audience - you'd be surprised how little traffic actually goes or stays anywhere near Scotland.