On 2013-02-05 19:31 , Andreas Fink wrote:
side note: I was testing LTE in Basel. Speed is lower than 3G (like 3-5M/sec) I wondered why as my friends in Finland get like 40M/s
LTE is not deployed yet for real in Switzerland...
Note also that for instance
What spring to my mind however is that the speed test tools do in fact measure speed with local providers around the corner. And as far as I know, swisscom doesn't peer on SwissIX with them so it might very likley be a similar ping-pong through somewhere else in europe or USA which is potentially ruining the speed. Of course it could simply be not enough capacity inside the mobile network.
Did you try a traceroute?
From my experience Swisscom is doing great peering with most
destinations that I use, be those local or remote (eg the US). (the only thing one could say is that some goes over Geneva, but that is apparently where their DSL handoff happens)
My point is: PEERING PAYS OFF. No matter how "evli" your competitor might look like, both save money and gain speed. Even ISP's in other parts of the world have started to realize that its stupid to send off traffic across continents just because they don't like the competitor.
You are missing the important point about peering: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUYdi43qXHc
Oh and of course if you 'cut off' your competitor that might just be a business case for a customer to go to you or them, next to them not being tier-1 enough....
Also, do calculate into the equation the cost of the interfaces needed to have traffic transfer at one or the other location.
In the end though it is a penis game...
Greets, Jeroen