Hong Kong isn't that bad, PCCW Netvigator AS4760, HKBN AS9269, HGC AS9304 are all announcing their customer route throughout HKIX

HKBN is one of the largest operator on the market too, and most of the ISP are willing to exchange traffic via IX

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On Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 3:41 AM Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke@gmail.com> wrote:

I think the biggest difference between what the IP transit providers have described is that PCCW is also a major middle-mile and last-mile provider in Hong Kong. You'll find their 100Mbps to gigabit class end user service in apartments, condos and office buildings throughout the city.

The non-HK based transit providers that would be in a top-40 CAIDA ASRANK size are generally not operators of last mile connectivity within the city.

On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 2:54 PM nanoguser99 via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:

Nanog,

Currently my organization uses PCCW which we pay through the nose for and I'm looking to cut them. This was put in place before me. I was informed that PCCW is "the carrier" in Hong Kong but based on my analysis I'm not sure that's the case. My analysis of carriers such as Lumen and Cogent put them on par with PCCW. Pings to random IPs in HK are reasonable fast on all of them, same with pings to cloud providers. Access to mainland is not a hard requirement but just to check they all had 300+ ms latency to known IPs in Shanghai and Tanjin.

I know some regions such as Korea or Dubai are monopolized where the wrong carrier takes you on a far away path to get a few blocks down the street.

I don't need anything special, just general DIA and good access to eyeballs and internet. I just wanted to see people's opinions here as APAC connectivity can be tricky.

- Nanoguser99

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