On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:01 PM, S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com> wrote:
> Hi Logan,
> At 12:33 22-10-2015, Loganaden Velvindron wrote:
>
>> I talk about my experience with the Mauritius IXP here, and my attempt at
>> making the Internet in Mauritius having some initial success:
>>
>
> There isn't any technical information in your blog article. Could you
> please add some technical data if you would like me to comment about it?
>
I deliberately kept it as simple as possible. I'm not sure that a non
technical reader would understand ping.
>
> This is a traceroute output to the OTAM web site (the web site is hosted
> locally):
>
> 1 197.226.208.1 (197.226.208.1) 1.218 ms 1.334 ms 1.390 ms
> 2 197.226.251.86 (197.226.251.86) 1.329 ms 1.420 ms 1.633 ms
> 3 as36882.mixp.org (196.223.0.3) 1.879 ms 2.179 ms 1.638 ms
> 4 196.192.69.129 (196.192.69.129) 2.607 ms 1.800 ms 1.694 ms
> 5 196.192.69.134 (196.192.69.134) 1.891 ms 1.935 ms 2.94 ms
> 6 10.11.0.82 (10.11.0.82) 3.175 ms 2.855 ms 2.935 ms
> 7 ravenala-demo.dcl.mu (196.192.64.46) 3.119 ms 3.468 ms 3.20 ms
>
> The connection is going through MIXP, the local internet exchange point.
> In your blog article, you commented that "I do the same test from Emtel to
> Orange, and I get 78ms as latency". That is still very high.
>
Yes, That's still quite high. The Kenyan Internet Exchange Point reduced
the latency locally from 200ms-600ms to 2-10ms, according to this:
http://www.internetsociety.org/sites/default/files/Assessment%20of%20the%20impact%20of%20Internet%20Exchange%20Points%20%E2%80%93%20empirical%20study%20of%20Kenya%20and%20Nigeria.pdf
Why can't we achieve the same kind of latency for traffic across local ISPs
in Mauritius ?
>
> The information for mixp.org is as follows:
>
> Domain ID: D175296742-LROR
> Creation Date: 2015-02-12T12:04:36Z
> Updated Date: 2015-08-18T10:13:47Z
> Registry Expiry Date: 2016-02-12T12:04:36Z
> Sponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com, LLC (R91-LROR)
> Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 146
>
> Admin Organization:Data Communications Ltd
> Admin Street: 1/F Cnr Mgr Gonin
> Admin Street: and Lislet Geoffroy Streets
> Admin City:Port Louis
> Admin State/Province:Not Applicable
> Admin Postal Code:PL
> Admin Country:MU
>
> Shouldn't the organisation be Mauritius Internet Exchange Point (MIXP)
> instead of Data Communications Ltd?
>
I definitely agree that it should have been the Mauritius Internet Exchange
Point Association, and not DCL.
>
> There are currently 10 members peering at MIXP. The average monthly
> traffic (IN and OUT) is 51 Mb/s. In my opinion, there is virtually very
> little traffic going through the local internet exchange point.
>
My guess is the high price of setting up a server in Mauritius, compared to
Europe and US, where it's so much cheaper. I think that we need more web
sites and services in Mauritius.
Also, as people complain about high latency for facebook (400-1200ms), I
believe the problem is the lack of facebook servers in Mauritius and/or
Cache servers for facebook. I definitely think that services like facebook
should have had less 100 ms latency from Mauritius, instead of 400-1200ms.
> According to MIXP its secretariat is AfriNIC. What is AfriNIC managing
> the local internet exchange point?
>
>
Regards,
> S. Moonesamy
>
Received on Thu Oct 22 2015 - 20:16:09 PST