[vasco]

Wouldn't you just be closer to the closest PoP and requesting mostly cached content? With how connected amsterdam is they couldn't be around there. Also depending on when it was up until like 7-8 years ago even in major city centers there was no fiber in most places in NL. Now it's mostly covered.

[Havoc]

Was a while back so bit fuzzy on what precisely we were measuring, but no wasn't something cached/CDN'd. Maybe a VPS or something not sure.

I was on a better connection (gigabit FTTC) and in a better peered location (central London).

>amsterdam

Don't know where precisely in NL they were or what connection type. I'd certainly expect a like for like amsterdam wired connection to win so this was probably something more pedestrian & rural