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by squigs25 4504 days ago
A short route doesn't necessarily mean good bandwidth
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It does reduce the buck-passing. See the current Verizon-Netflix squabble using Cogent as a proxy.
As a FIOS customer, it really is delightful. Especially when you're trying to get actual work done from your business FIOS connection to your rack in a colocation facility, not watch videos.

Only after calling and complaining for a week did they change the route, and magically, the latency and 50%+ packet loss went away.