I also have hosts in the US and Australia. <br><br>There is definitely a speed difference, but I think the quality of the hosting service has a bigger impact than the number of hops a request takes.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On 13 July 2010 11:23, Russell Quinn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:QN@boxhillhs.vic.edu.au">QN@boxhillhs.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2">Hi all,</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2"> this question was raised by some students when</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">discussing Adrian's Pond Scum SAC 301. I don't have</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">enough network experience to give a definitive answer.</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2"></font> </div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">The claim was that if the web hosting was moved from</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">America to Australia, the uploading of pictures would be</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2"><font face="tahoma" size="2"><font face="tahoma" size="2"><font face="tahoma" size="2">noticeably</font></font></font> faster.</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2"></font> </div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">As a physicist I can see here would be a change in performance,</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">but I would have thought perhaps only milliseconds or perhaps a</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2"><font face="tahoma">few seconds at most</font>. Of course if there
</font><font face="tahoma" size="2">is a problem routing to </font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">America one might sometimes experience a delay, but</font><font face="tahoma" size="2"> not always. </font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2"></font> </div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Does anyone know the truth of the matter?</font> </div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2"></font> </div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">TIA</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Regards,</font></div>
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<div><font face="arial" size="2">Russell Quinn</font></div>
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