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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
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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WTF is Edinburgh LINX? LINX is London Internet eXchange. London is not in Edinburgh.
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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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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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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.
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I was reading a story that when IXScotland goes live and providers like vm/bt/ join it. It would help bring the ping time down in scotland. is this a lot of lies or will this happen
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2013/02/scotland-planning-to-build-its-own-internet-exchange-for-isps.html
John Souter, CEO of LINX, said (Scotsman):
“The biggest difference users will see is in terms of what is called “latency” – the time lapse which can cause gaps – like a pause in conversation. The less distance information has to travel the less problem there is with latency.
This is very important to games players, where low
latency is critical, as well as Skype and other voice services and anything where there are transactions such as banking services.”