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Iceland pings
Bit of a random one here. I was thinking that a VPS placed in Iceland would create a nice fast(ish) route between the US and EU. Perhaps naively I expected the time to the East coast US and EU from Iceland to be reasonably similiar, but...
Checking a few providers they all seem to return the same kind of travel time. EU all around 50-60ms but east coast US 140ms right up to 200ms the further out you go. I get better results to the US from the UK..
Am I missing something or just expecting too much from Iceland to US?
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Thats becasue virtually all connections to Iceland go over London
Iceland is not between Europe and the US. Have a look here.
It would be logical to have lower pings from Iceland to USA East coast and to Europe, unfortunately Iceland seems to be a very small market and money doesn't always follow the lowest ping logic, it usually follows the biggest profit (in this case the cheapest bandwidth) logic.
Here is a nice map of undersea cables
http://www.cablemap.info/
http://www.submarinecablemap.com/
I'm not an EU expert, but from what I see of Iceland's submarine cables there's only 1 US bound cable via Greenland, and that doesn't look particularly latency friendly in terms of length + terminating at Newfoundland. So Iceland -> US would likely take the Iceland > UK > US paths instead.
Indeed, it was the submarinecablemap that made me realise how crap the connectivity was heading to the US and I did notice the routing through London when doing a tracroute from NY.
So really I have not missed anything, it really it shit from Iceland to the US!