[dx034]

Ok thanks. So it appears that most peering is done in Frankfurt and available directly. Didn't see that wiki entry before.

Let's just hope that they get more peering partners over the medium term. Peering with Telekom would be very helpful, pings from within Germany can be close to what you get from the US East Coast (from my not representative tests).

[TimWolla]

See this on why they won't peer with Deutsche Telekom: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10645577

[snuxoll]

Peering gets so incredibly stupid with consumer ISP's that it's infuriating. It reminds me of the whole Comcast-Cogent fiasco, it's incredibly unfair to try and charge other providers when the customers that are PAYING YOU are requesting the traffic.

I think any real effort at enshrining net neutrality as law instead of a gentleman's agreement needs to include provisions that prevent residential / small business ISP's from throwing their weight around with peering agreements at the detriment of their customers.

[dx034]

I know that Telekom has a horrible attitude towards peering. But they're the only provider of high speed internet in many regions of Germany. Other cloud providers (e.g. OVH) also pay so I doubt Telekom will change soon.

[benger]

They offer Deutsche Telekom traffic. You just need to enable it https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Double_Paid_Traffic/en