Routing problem in Ireland
by business_kid from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6KVAM)
I have a particular and unique routing problem here in Dublin. The problem is laid out below. My question is: How on earth can I solve it? What's the best way of forcefully sinking a toe in the appropriate behind?
Within 10km (6-7 miles) of me as the crow flies are data centres for: Amazon web services; Google; Microsoft; Apple; Meta, and many more. We have huge internet infrastructure nationally, with under-sea fibre-optic trunk cables to East (UK), to West (US), & to South (Europe). I should have the best of all worlds.
But when I try to access these servers 10km away, bandwidth can be terrible. Zoom, for instance, keeps telling me my internet is unstable. I know for a fact the Zoom servers for Ireland are in Dublin's City West, <10km away. Here's the traceroute for that: Code:dec@Ebony:~$ traceroute zoom.us
traceroute to zoom.us (170.114.52.2), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 fritz.box (192.168.178.1) 3.911 ms 10.757 ms 11.486 ms
2 83.147.159.108 (83.147.159.108) 11.748 ms 12.344 ms 12.337 ms
3 89.234.82.151 (89.234.82.151) 15.261 ms 17.509 ms 78.137.185.237 (78.137.185.237) 18.277 ms
4 inex-cork.as13335.net (185.1.69.29) 16.061 ms 16.726 ms 17.446 ms
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dec@Ebony:~$The 4th one (in bold) is a trunk router 160 miles South of me. My traceroute is apparently headed for the undersea route to the European mainland, probably Zoom's servers in the Netherlands. But it obviously hits a bottle-neck at that point. Thence, it will have to come back to Ireland, probably through the same bottleneck again :(.
Another site I had issues with used to go to the US via our undersea link), through a bottleneck, and back to City West where their servers were located, not 10 km from me. I couldn't watch video above 520p from that 'streaming' site, which indicates < 1Mbps bandwidth. But that lot moved their servers to the UK now. I'm not tempted to re-subscribe in any case.
Sadly, it's not a simple case. Ireland was given a paltry IPV4 allocation, but has been busy buying up blocks of unused IPV4 addresses. My own fixed IP (92.51.x.x) was bought from Russia, and is split between some Scandinavian country and ourselves. We bought another block from Romania recently. Also, because of the very tight restrictions in getting a .ie IP allocation, many name their websites with other tlds. So no general routing rules can be written.
Within 10km (6-7 miles) of me as the crow flies are data centres for: Amazon web services; Google; Microsoft; Apple; Meta, and many more. We have huge internet infrastructure nationally, with under-sea fibre-optic trunk cables to East (UK), to West (US), & to South (Europe). I should have the best of all worlds.
But when I try to access these servers 10km away, bandwidth can be terrible. Zoom, for instance, keeps telling me my internet is unstable. I know for a fact the Zoom servers for Ireland are in Dublin's City West, <10km away. Here's the traceroute for that: Code:dec@Ebony:~$ traceroute zoom.us
traceroute to zoom.us (170.114.52.2), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 fritz.box (192.168.178.1) 3.911 ms 10.757 ms 11.486 ms
2 83.147.159.108 (83.147.159.108) 11.748 ms 12.344 ms 12.337 ms
3 89.234.82.151 (89.234.82.151) 15.261 ms 17.509 ms 78.137.185.237 (78.137.185.237) 18.277 ms
4 inex-cork.as13335.net (185.1.69.29) 16.061 ms 16.726 ms 17.446 ms
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dec@Ebony:~$The 4th one (in bold) is a trunk router 160 miles South of me. My traceroute is apparently headed for the undersea route to the European mainland, probably Zoom's servers in the Netherlands. But it obviously hits a bottle-neck at that point. Thence, it will have to come back to Ireland, probably through the same bottleneck again :(.
Another site I had issues with used to go to the US via our undersea link), through a bottleneck, and back to City West where their servers were located, not 10 km from me. I couldn't watch video above 520p from that 'streaming' site, which indicates < 1Mbps bandwidth. But that lot moved their servers to the UK now. I'm not tempted to re-subscribe in any case.
Sadly, it's not a simple case. Ireland was given a paltry IPV4 allocation, but has been busy buying up blocks of unused IPV4 addresses. My own fixed IP (92.51.x.x) was bought from Russia, and is split between some Scandinavian country and ourselves. We bought another block from Romania recently. Also, because of the very tight restrictions in getting a .ie IP allocation, many name their websites with other tlds. So no general routing rules can be written.