I’m in Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia & using TM Unifi home fibre service. I found that it always connects to Cloudflare’s JHB node instead of the nearby Kuala Lumpur node. Although it’s not a big difference in terms of the latency,but it could be improved,right?
Chaika
June 21, 2023, 1:23pm
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Please check out the following tutorial for an explanation:
Why don’t I reach the closest datacenter to me?
Cloudflare is an anycast network, so where you are routed is determined by peering with ISPs. The shortest path geographically isn’t always possible due to peering agreements.
If you request a site hosted on Cloudflare from home:
The domain resolves to a Cloudflare IP
Your browser sends an HTTP request to that IP
Your ISP’s routers consult their routing table and route the packets upstream to their transit provider ( COSTS MONEY )
The packets …
The closest location is not always the lowest latency either, your ISP in the end has full control over where their egress traffic goes.
system
July 21, 2023, 1:23pm
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