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Our linode is currently in London (I didn't set it up...), but I'm probably going to request a move to the Tokyo datacenter in the next week. Ping times to Tokyo (136 ms) are literally half what they are to London (297 ms) and still better than Fremont (208 ms). Seems like a no-brainer to try moving it.

Where are you located? Your ping times don't mean much without a reference point.

Based on those times I'd say he is in Russia or very close to an Australia-Japan peering exchange.

I'm in Sydney, Australia.

From my iiNet DSL2+ connection in Perth, Australia to tokyo1.linode.com, I get 204ms ping and 14 hops, and from a Telstra fibre connection, I get 174ms and 15 hops.

That compares to about 250ms and 12 hops on iiNet, and 210ms and 14 hops on Telstra to fremont1.linode.com.

A little bit quicker, I think.

Yes, it's faster than Fremont. I moved to Dallas a few weeks ago after the third Fremont outage; now I wish I'd known this was coming down the pipeline.

... maybe I'll move again. It'd shave 50-60ms.

It's not great for Australia.

Most ISPs will route to Japan sensibly, but a few try and save money and route via the US (note that this is the same as hosting with Amazon in Singapore).