On Tuesday 28 November 2006 10:24, Kerry Mayes wrote: > I think this changed wrt Oz with a big "pipe" over the Tasman, but is > Asia (e.g. Japan) closer in a network sense that the West Coast of > the US? Anyone know? I've just done a couple of traceroutes to different hosts in Japan. One went via AU, 'tother via US. Similar number of hops each time, about 20 until they fizzled out, with * * *, lines inside the host's institutions.
Apart from the Australian east coast cities, the US West Coast is the nearest part of the overseas Internet world to us. -- CS
