I don't care about fancy numbers, I care about high quality peering.

I'd rather have a stable 50Mbit than 1Gbit and 0.5Mbit international peering with packet loss.

Init7 (the ISP in question) is pretty fantastic for peering. They're good to start with but there have been times I've just written them an email and said "hey, I know you and ASABCD have a presence at BLAH-IX, could you peer directly" and it ends up working.

I can download from Usenet at consistently around 10Gbps and I've determined the limiting factor is the combination of client/server behavior and TCP windows. With some customization I've saturated the 25Gbps pipe.

Online games (e.g. League of Legends, Path of Exile) typically have a ping of around 8ms.

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inemesitaffia 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Don't sign up with a Tier 1 or aspiring one

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landgenoot 2 hours ago | parent [-]

How do I compare the peering capabilities of different ISP's? Assuming tier 1 ISP's are not available in my geographic location.

	▲	inemesitaffia 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Radar by qrator and BGP.tools. BGP.tools may be inaccurate for upstreams. Liberty Global is fine.