Ouch... latency must be awful. I suppose this is based on Cogents reputation but who knows. The whole peering aspect of the networking business is often a mystery. AKK wrote:

My main concern for European Cogent users is - no European peering with global crossing - traffic goes via NY JFK. It has been like this for at least a year and staff been giving assurances this should be sorted soon. Probably there are more bad peerings - please share.

6: so-7-0-0c0.rt1.mil.it.geant2.net (62.40.112.174) asymm 5 14.446ms 7: so-7-1-0.rt1.fra.de.geant2.net (62.40.112.61) asymm 6 27.120ms 8: TenGigabitEthernet7-3.ar1.FRA4.gblx.net (207.138.144.45) 246.852ms 9: po3-20G.ar7.NYC1.gblx.net (67.16.134.74) asymm 12 122.810ms 10: te2-1.ccr01.jfk07.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.11.61) asymm 12 123.003ms 11: te4-1.ccr01.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.1.221) asymm 13 118.334ms 12: te4-3.ccr01.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.1.106) asymm 14 198.997ms 13: te2-7.ccr02.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.1.169) asymm 14 204.575ms 14: te2-3.ccr01.dus01.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.3.90) asymm 15 213.653ms 15: te7-1.ccr01.muc01.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.49.154) asymm 14 225.144ms 16: te3-1.ccr01.vie01.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.49.30) asymm 22 254.543ms 17: te3-8.ccr01.bts01.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.49.25) asymm 21 248.505ms 18: te1-1.ccr01.tsr01.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.48.58) asymm 20 243.334ms 19: te1-3.ccr01.tsr01.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.0.18) asymm 20 249.374ms 20: 149.6.112.2 (149.6.112.2) asymm 19 273.730ms 21: 149.6.112.2 (149.6.112.2) asymm 19 268.122ms 22: down-int.caucasus.net (62.168.172.205) asymm 21 268.647ms 23: down-int.caucasus.net (62.168.172.205) asymm 21 274.430ms 24: sw.caucasus.net (62.168.168.60) asymm 21 277.811ms

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