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In <4b9pl3$3rp@doctor.nl2k.edmonton.ab.ca> doctor@nl2k.edmonton.AB.ca (The Doctor) writes:

>>  A direct connection to the US
>>backbone does take a hop or two off the net distance to most servers;
>>nearly all overseas traffic is going to go through a US backbone
>>anyway.  The facts are that most of the population of the world is not
>>in Canada, and to get from Canada to somewhere else on the Internet you
>>will most likely have to go through a US backbone.

>So are you arguing that Alberta is part of the US backbone? 
>Sure sounds like it to me.

I won't argue that it sounds that way to you.  To most people,
however, I am saying that if you are going to a site in the US or
overseas from Canada you are almost always going to go through a US
backbone.  Therefore your argument that there is more to the world
than the US has no meaning because the rest of that world outside
Canada is, in practice, accessed through the US anyway.

>>
>>A couple of hops to get to Vancouver from ARNet isn't a huge deal as
>>long as there is enough bandwidth.  OTOH, the situation with the
>>Canadian backbone isn't very settled right now and I'm not entirely
>>happy with it.

>Are you aware of the privatizatoion of ARNet?

Yes.  The routing for current ARNet clients has not changed, so I see
no reason not to talk about ARNet.  Things will be changing in the
future, but last I knew we were talking about what is happening right
now.