05 May 13
My internet connection travels from Australia to the US by means of an undersea cable between Sydney and somewhere in California. The land-based parts of this journey travel at a respectable speed, but both ends of the pipeline (although not the pipeline itself) seem to have a huge logjam, according to my traceroute numbers. Given that commerce would demand the maximum possible speed, and be prepared to pay for it, why does this still happen?
