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Flow ARCOS Speed Test!

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Posted 06 August 2007 - 01:25 AM

Keep in mind that while their bandwidth seems good (according to their network engineer) their customer support does still suck... hopefully this would also improve... then maybe Flow can bring their internet up my side too!
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Posted 06 August 2007 - 01:28 AM

View Posthalajeet, on Aug 4 2007, 01:14 AM, said:

There may not actually be a direct link from Trinidad to Curacao even though there is a physical fibre link. IP traffic can be routed independent of the physical cable runs so even though Curacao might be physically close by your packet can hit all the way to the US before it comes back. Do a traceroute instead to see the hops along the way.


I don't understand what you are saying, how can traffic be routed independent of the physical layer? Are u saying it could just take hops to all over once it leaves Trinidad to Curacao?
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Posted 06 August 2007 - 10:34 PM

What I'm saying is that even though there may be a physical fibre between Trinidad and Curacao, the ISP may have a peering point with a provider elsewhere, up the US mainland for example. As a result there is a traffic exchange between the ISP and upstream provider. The upstream provider will then be responsible for getting your traffic to the destination by passing it to the next peering point, etc. It's possible that a request from a PC in Trinidad may actually go up to the US and back down again via some other means to get to Curacao. If the local ISP has a peering point in Curacao then traffic can pass directly from Trinidad to Curacao and vice-versa. The best way to see thing will be to do a traceroute and observe the path the packet takes.
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