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Originally posted by goBigtime
Ok.. lets take a look...
I'm just going to use the first servers listed for the countries at traceroute.org:
FROM RUSSIA: (via http://lg.telia.ru/ )
to cogent (cogentco.com) 12 hops
to cogent (my personal box) 22 hops
to globalX (swiftco.net) 12 hops
to level3 (yahoo.com) 13 hops
to verio (sinhost.com) 15 hops
to sprintlink (surewest.com) 15 hops
FROM NETHERLANDS: (via http://www2.nl.uu.net/netwerk/pops/trace.uunet )
to cogent (cogentco.com) 15 hops
to cogent (my personal box) 23 hops
to globalX (swiftco.net) 16 hops
to ???? (yahoo.com) 19 hops
to verio (sinhost.com) 19 hops
to ALTER (surewest.com) 13 hops (same network)
FROM NZ: (via http://www.kcbbs.gen.nz/cgi-bin/trace )
to cogent (cogentco.com) 14 hops
to cogent (my personal box) 13 hops
to globalX (swiftco.net) 15 hops
to level3 (yahoo.com) 14 hops
to verio (sinhost.com) 16 hops
to sprintlink (surewest.com) 15 hops
FROM AU: (via http://tcruskit.telstra.net/cgi-bin/trace )
to cogent (cogentco.com) 13 hops
to cogent (my personal box) 13 hops
to globalX (swiftco.net) 16 hops
to reach (yahoo.com) 11 hops
to verio (sinhost.com) 16 hops
to qwest (surewest.com) 13 hops
The BGP's @ surewest & yahoo are making this hard to stay consistent with the providers. If I do a ????? its because the last few hops were all ip's and I dont feel like looking them up ;)
Anyway for shits & giggles lets continue.....
FROM CANADA: (via http://www.xenitec.on.ca/cgi-bin/trace.cgi )
to cogent (cogentco.com) 17 hops
to cogent (my personal box) 21 hops
to globalX (swiftco.net) 16 hops
to cw (yahoo.com) 15 hops
to verio (sinhost.com) 16 hops
to ????? (surewest.com) 20 hops
FROM DENMARK: (via http://trace.tele.dk/cgi-bin/nph-first )
to cogent (cogentco.com) 19 hops
to cogent (my personal box) 27 hops!
to globalX (swiftco.net) 15 hops
to ???? (yahoo.com) TIMEOUT 18
to verio (sinhost.com) 17 hops
to globalX(surewest.com) 15 hops
FROM GERMANY: (via http://www.helios.de/cgi-bin/nph-trace.cgi )
to cogent (cogentco.com) 17 hops
to cogent (my personal box) 25 hops!
to globalX (swiftco.net) 19 hops
to L3 (yahoo.com) 12 hops
to verio (sinhost.com) 18 hops
to ALTER(surewest.com) 16 hops
Ok, now I'm burnt out on this 
Anyway yeah Cogent _customers_ do seem to take the long way around half the time there. BUT it's dirt cheap & still gets there =)
(I had ebay in the mix but they were timing out everywhere on ~ the 13th hop). Go figure.
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explain this though: why does overall bandwidth increase when you move from cogent to a different provider (ie Cable & Wireless or Internap) ?
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