“We scheduled latency measurements from all RIPE Atlas probes towards the three Wikimedia locations we wanted to look at, and visualised what datacenter showed the lowest latency for each probe [...] For the Vladivostok probes Amsterdam and San Francisco are almost the same distance, give or take 100 km.”
▻https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/how-ripe-atlas-helped-wikipedia-users
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One of the conclusions: it is better to be in Europe or on the USA than in Africa...