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Re: Carrier Options in Hong Kong


From: Luca Salvatore <lucasalvatore () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 15:00:49 -0500

Telstra Global (4637) are solid all around APAC

On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 1:54 PM nanoguser99 via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
wrote:

Nanog,

Currently my organization uses PCCW which we pay through the nose for and
I'm looking to cut them.  This was put in place before me.  I was informed
that PCCW is "the carrier" in Hong Kong but based on my analysis I'm not
sure that's the case.  My analysis of carriers such as Lumen and Cogent put
them on par with PCCW.  Pings to random IPs in HK are reasonable fast on
all of them, same with pings to cloud providers.   Access to mainland is
not a hard requirement but just to check they all had 300+ ms latency to
known IPs in Shanghai and Tanjin.

I know some regions such as Korea or Dubai are monopolized where the wrong
carrier takes you on a far away path to get a few blocks down the street.

I don't need anything special, just general DIA and good access to
eyeballs and internet.  I just wanted to see people's opinions here as APAC
connectivity can be tricky.

- Nanoguser99

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