On 9/9/2013 11:29 AM, joel jaeggli responded with a "smart guy" answer:

On 9/9/13 7:43 AM, Jason Lixfeld wrote:

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That notwithstanding, it's stupid to send traffic to/from one of the large $your_region/country incumbents via $not_your_region/country. It's just not good Internet.

yyz-yvr is faster via the united states. physics doesn't respect poltical boundries.

There are still a lot of people that care about the sheer principle of the issue. Please do not discount that with math. - ferg -- Paul Ferguson Vice President, Threat Intelligence Internet Identity, Tacoma, Washington USA IID --> "Connect and Collaborate" --> www.internetidentity.com