On 2013-09-09, at 14:29, joel jaeggli <joe...@bogus.com> wrote: > On 9/9/13 7:43 AM, Jason Lixfeld wrote: >> That notwithstanding, it's stupid to send traffic to/from one of the >> large $your_region/country incumbents via $not_your_region/country. >> It's just not good Internet. > > yyz-yvr is faster via the united states. physics doesn't respect > poltical boundries.
Not only physics, but geometry. Vancouver is further north than Seattle, but Toronto is further south than Portland. http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=YYZ-YVR Joe