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Robert E. Seastrom wrote: > > From: Dave Curado <[email protected]> > > However, I had huge problems running an ISP in HK. The telco pricing > has always been such that it is scads less expensive to connect back > to the US than to another country, even another country just a few > miles away. I keep watching the pricing and goings-on to see if/when > there will be a reasonable pricing decrease on bandwidth to Asia, but > haven't seen anything yet. > > Oh well, mark HK off the list... Pls don't. :) In fact, the situation is the same in almost all countries within Asia/Pacific. > For the time being, it seems that the most affordable solution would > be for each country to build it's own exchange, and have everything > link back via the US. (although its silly to have traffic from HK > to Bangkok routing via San Jose...) > > Well, Hawaii is closer... :-/ But frankly, there is no incentive to connect to Hawaii or Guam unless an AP-CIX has really been set up there with significant number of major participants. A chicken & egg problem!? Cheers, -- Che-Hoo Cheng | Email: [email protected] Data Comms and Networking Section | URL: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ Information Technology Service Unit | Tel: +852 2609-8848 The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Fax: +852 2603-5001 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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