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<p class="MsoPlainText">I knew I could depend on AusNOG to explore every option - thanks :)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">A colleague of mine suggested to VPN to a point half-way along the alternate direction (eg India) and see if the connection would be routed through Europe from there. Could reduce the latency significantly, worth a shot. Will let you
know if I succeed.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Also some others suggested to tweak the TCP settings, which I will also look into – again, thanks.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Cheers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Clay<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Kim Pearce<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 13 September 2016 2:05 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> ausnog@lists.ausnog.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] Best roundtrip latency to Israel?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And if you drill, it is a 20,000km round trip - ~(10,000km along the chord from SYD to TLV)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Mark Andrews <<a href="mailto:marka@isc.org" target="_blank">marka@isc.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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In message <<a href="mailto:AM5PR0301MB24814072C2675F44C808F43AD2FE0@AM5PR0301MB2481.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com">AM5PR0301MB24814072C2675F44C808F43AD2FE0@AM5PR0301MB2481.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com</a>>, Clay Quinn writes:<br>
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> Hi All,<br>
><br>
> An oddball question - is anyone using services over Internet to Israel<br>
> (VPN etc), and if so what is your round-trip latency? From a Telstra TID<br>
> connection I'm getting around 400ms (Sydney, LA, New York, UK, France,<br>
> Israel). I'm curious if there's a less-latent path on another<br>
> provider/route (RDP sessions are painfully slow).<br>
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SYD to TLV is 8813 great circle miles (14183km). This gives a lower<br>
bound on a terrestrial path unless you start drilling.<br>
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> Using 30,000km as an estimate for the fibre distance, that gives a<br>
> theoretical minimum latency of 300ms (0.5us/km * 30,000km * both<br>
> directions). So there's an additional 100ms of overhead there (OEO<br>
> conversions probably - 30 hops in traceroute).<br>
><br>
> If that's par for the course, I guess WAN acceleration is really the only<br>
> option - I understand it's a pretty long path. If anyone has any unique<br>
> solutions to this problem I'd love to hear it.<br>
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> Cheers<br>
> Clay<br>
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