Routing from Manchester - good!

So I went live with Hyperoptic here in Manchester about two months ago. I noticed at first that almost all routes I bothered checking were via Cogent, so routed via their network from Manchester to London and onward from there.

I've since noticed that Hyperoptic are using the peering point IX Manchester a lot more: Akamai, BBC and Janet (so mirrorservice.org for instance) are served via this route - pretty damn quick! For the first time in as long as I can remember, if I ping the university my data isn't going down to London via BT Wholesale (or Be*'s network before I was on BTW), but it's going near enough direct; pings of 2.8msec to www.man.ac.uk!


I'm certainly impressed

Congratulations and welcome to Hyperoptic blueacid!

We're glad to hear you�re finding the service super speedy.

We�re continually enhancing the service we that we can provide you with a high quality fibre connection. We�re sure you�ll continually be impressed � enjoy!

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