On 8/25/09, Rainer Duffner <rainer at ultra-secure.de> wrote: > Am 25.08.2009 um 23:16 schrieb Lanny Marcus: >> >> Hi Johnny and thank you for asking for feedback. I am in Cali, >> Colombia, South America. >> Our route to Brazil, for one of many examples, would be via Miami/Ft. >> Lauderdale, Florida, USA. So, for us, in Colombia, it is much better >> to have a Mirror site in South Florida or the S.E. USA, if possible; >> since I do not believe there is one in Colombia. The fact that >> Colombia is adjacent to Panama, Brazil, Venezuela, etc., would make a >> Mirror in one of those countries faster, *if* we had a direct route on >> the Internet to them, but, we don't. I suspect for most countries in >> Latin America, this would be the same, since Latin America is so >> strongly connected to Miami, "the capital" of Latin America. Lanny >> _______________________________________________ > > Though off-topic, I find this interesting. > Don't you in South America have some sort of high-speed network > connecting the various universities there? > > Don't you have peering-points somewhere? > > Sorry for hijacking this thread... Rainer: I don't think your reply is OT or hijacking. Good point. I suspect that in the EU, there is a lot of peering between countries, but here in SA, I don't think so. For one example, in our most advanced neighboring country, Brazil, they speak a different language. And, with 2 other neighboring countries (Venezuela and Ecuador) we have very serious political problems, because of the friendship Colombia has with the USA, the assistance those 2 countries give to Colombian guerrilla groups, etc. OK, now this is getting political, so it's getting way OT. :-) Lanny