From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jan 7 14:36:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from 1nova.com (heorot.1nova.com [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9AE037B404 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 14:36:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by 1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DD96E18F1; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:36:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by 1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC06118F0; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:36:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:36:48 -0800 (PST) From: Rick Hamell To: Bill Vermillion Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Restricting Users Geographically In-Reply-To: <20020107222217.GI41572@wjv.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Another example is places such as tucows.com. They list states so > you are supposed to go to your state sites, but I find I get faster > access going to different states - solely because of the network I > am on. Speed is what counts. I can also get to some sites across > the US faster than sites locally. Good example... Tucows BC is always faster for me then the two sites in Oregon. I can't help it if the geographically closest site is being run off a slow connection. (.edu.) I'm two hops off a backbone, and the BC site is two hops off of the same backbone. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message