ISPs was: [SLUG] Domain Names

[Anand Kumria <akumria@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 03:20:02PM +1000, Richard Hayes wrote:
> On Mon,  3 Sep 2001 11:18, Steven Blunt wrote:
> 
> > Generally hosting in the US will be cheaper, tho if you expect all your
> > customers to be Australian you might want the server to be closer to them.
> 
> Depending on whicgh ISP both of you are on it is often **much faster** to get 
> stuff from the US than locally as most major ISP have their own direct 
> connection to the US.

Really? Unless there were extremely large (i.e. Optus/ Telstra) I'd be
very surprised. Very few ISPs describe their external connections - is
there a website or another place that does?

On the topic of ISPs does anyone know if any in Sydney support either
multicast or IPv6?

Thanks,
Anand