Megaport vs direct peering - what a difference 18 months made for our office in Phoenix

We had a Megaport connection for our Phoenix office that was okay but nothing special. Latency to AWS was around 15ms and we got packet loss at peak hours every other week. About 6 months ago we switched to direct peering with Level 3 and a local data center. Our latency dropped to 2ms and that packet loss issue vanished completely. Has anyone else seen that big of a jump just from changing the type of connection?

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martin.margaret18d ago

15ms to AWS in Phoenix sounds like you were routing through a carrier pigeon with a bad connection. 2ms is more like it, anything above that and you might as well be using smoke signals.

jade_carter2018d ago

Honestly I always thought 2ms was a myth but yeah this kinda makes sense now.