Network Gurus wanted: How to get my modem to connect to different ISP data center/server locations?

GreenWitcher · Sep 13, 2015

So, I've taken an interest in knowing more about this sort of thing when it comes to networking. Is there a way to connect to different data center/server locations for my ISP? I know that I am receiving service in a town rather close to mine, however I'd like to be able to receive service in a different location than where I'm currently connected. Also, is there any way to bring up a list of these kinds of service centers in my area. And further, is there a way to test each service center to see how many leaps it takes to ping a certain server? (Like how many leaps it takes to connect to Google, or an online game server.)

Thanks for the help in advanced.

bill001g · Sep 13, 2015

You have little choice when it comes to how you connect to the internet unless you are a huge company with lot of money. Large companies even have fiber coming into their building that even follows different paths in the street so that if the someone accidentally digs it up they have a backup.

Now if you just want to see how things are connected you can search for what is called lookingglass. Many ISP allow you to have limited access to some of their routers. It does help to learn how BGP aspath works even though many also allow trace and ping.

jsmithepa · Sep 13, 2015

You ought read that book about this Canadian Banker who worked in NY and discovered how fast traders built their own network and have their computers located close to manhattan so their signal can arrive microseconds earlier and beat the competition. Is still happening I think, the government is not doing anything about it. Fascinating tech+money saga, and a little sad for the average investor.

GreenWitcher · Sep 16, 2015

So as far as my question, there is no way? I simply want to limit the amount of hops it takes to get from my service center, to a specific server.

bill001g · Sep 16, 2015

Not for the average person. You can of course buy a private dedicated connection to any data center you choose. You then have 1 hop to that data center. Still that does not necessary mean it will be any faster it greatly depends on if the private connection can be engineered to follow a better path than the internet one. The most important difference is the private line will have a guaranteed latency and bandwidth

GreenWitcher · Sep 16, 2015

Out of curiosity, how much does, on average, a private dedicated connection cost.

jsmithepa · Sep 16, 2015

GreenWitcher :

Oh that's all?

If you have to ask, you can't afford it.

Darkbreeze · Sep 17, 2015

Thousands of dollars per month for a dedicated trunk or optical line. It's not an option for the average consumer or private sector connections.

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