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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">Hi all,</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma"> this question was raised by some students when</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">discussing Adrian's Pond Scum SAC 301. I don't have</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">enough network experience to give a definitive answer.</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma"></font> </div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">The claim was that if the web hosting was moved from</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">America to Australia, the uploading of pictures would be</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma"><font size="2" face="tahoma"><font size="2" face="tahoma"><font size="2" face="tahoma">noticeably</font></font></font> faster.</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma"></font> </div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">As a physicist I can see here would be a change in performance,</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">but I would have thought perhaps only milliseconds or perhaps a</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma"><font face="tahoma">few seconds at most</font>. Of course if there
</font><font size="2" face="tahoma">is a problem routing to </font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">America one might sometimes experience a delay, but</font><font size="2" face="tahoma"> not always. </font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma"></font> </div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Tahoma">Does anyone know the truth of the matter?</font> </div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma"></font> </div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">TIA</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Regards,</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="arial"></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" face="arial">Russell Quinn</font></div>
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