[shakna]

Cloudflare does serve me from France. When I'm in Australia. (My ISP bought some IP addresses that were original regional France, back in the early 90s.)

So though this does have implications, the assumptions they utilise, like always, are not universal.

[miyuru]

> My ISP bought some IP addresses that were original regional France

CLoudflare uses anycast, and IP geo location is not how anycast works.

[shakna]

That may be true. But you still need to explain why Cloudflare serves me from France, and not Sydney, in that case.

[wkat4242]

Wow doesn't that make things really slow due to the RTT of the acknowledgements?

[shakna]

Australia. Our fastest networks are pathetically slow.

The L2 FTTN parts of the NBN have been known to have an RTT in the range of minutes, for some locations.

My own varies from 5ms, for those who don't assume my geography, out to 890ms for those that do.