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Originally Posted by Martin Dee 11
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...-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.” |
It should definitely be an improvement for you guys. Hard to say how much by, but the idea is pretty simple: At the moment if you try to connect to (say) a server in London, you have to bounce through a bunch of different peering sites around the country. Now it's pretty fast, but each "hop" is going to add a small amount of delay, possibly even a sub-1ms delay but a delay none the less. I think the idea is that Scotland would have a hub that's connected directly to London (And likely other places, like Manchester and possibly some other places around the world), shaving off a few valuable ms depending on what you're connecting to.