On 26/08/16 14:40, admin at mirror.ng wrote: > Hello Fabian, > > Thanks a lot. > > South Africa won't work for Nigeria as a nearby country. > Yes, the path to SA is shorter but over 95% of traffic intended for SA > from Nigeria flow to the UK before travelling back down to South Africa. > > Latency to the UK: ~99ms > Latency to SA over direct path: ~80ms > Latency to SA via the UK: ~235ms > > So, the UK is still better as the "nearby country" to Nigeria, for now. > > Oluniyi > https://www.web4africa.net > Thanks a lot for your feedback/comments. Adding UK as a "nearby" country would still look a little bit strange, but if that's how the peering would work to reach other African countries, it would make sense. No real country nearby that would have a "direct" (or at least less hops that going to uk and back) link ? -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org gpg key: 56BEC54E | twitter: @arrfab -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-mirror/attachments/20160826/f69db179/attachment-0006.sig>