Network issues in Israel/Middle East

Tue May 26 15:06:25 UTC 2020

John,

As others have mentioned you should be going to Europe we have a POP in
Rosh Hayain, IL and in Nicosia, CY. Both POP's backup to AWS Ireland.
Almost all of your traffic in IL is going to go through Western Europe so
it makes no sense to send it to India. Israel does not have any peering
with its neighbors.

I just did some tests from Bezeq in Petah Tiqwa

AWS Ireland
[root at cust-219-83-123 ~]# ping 3.248.0.0
PING 3.248.0.0 (3.248.0.0) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 3.248.0.0: icmp_seq=1 ttl=223 time=69.0 ms
64 bytes from 3.248.0.0: icmp_seq=2 ttl=223 time=69.1 ms
^C

AWS Virginia
[root at cust-219-83-123 ~]# ping 3.80.0.0
PING 3.80.0.0 (3.80.0.0) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 3.80.0.0: icmp_seq=1 ttl=238 time=149 ms
64 bytes from 3.80.0.0: icmp_seq=2 ttl=238 time=149 ms
^C

AWS Mumbai
[root at cust-219-83-123 ~]# ping 3.6.0.0
PING 3.6.0.0 (3.6.0.0) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 3.6.0.0: icmp_seq=1 ttl=233 time=168 ms
64 bytes from 3.6.0.0: icmp_seq=2 ttl=233 time=168 ms
^C

AWS Milan
[root at cust-219-83-123 ~]# ping 15.161.0.254
PING 15.161.0.254 (15.161.0.254) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 15.161.0.254: icmp_seq=1 ttl=239 time=58.5 ms
64 bytes from 15.161.0.254: icmp_seq=2 ttl=239 time=58.4 ms
^C

AWS London
[root at cust-219-83-123 ~]# ping 3.8.0.0
PING 3.8.0.0 (3.8.0.0) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 3.8.0.0: icmp_seq=1 ttl=229 time=57.2 ms
64 bytes from 3.8.0.0: icmp_seq=2 ttl=229 time=57.2 ms
^C

AWS Frankfurt
[root at cust-219-83-123 ~]# ping 3.120.0.0
PING 3.120.0.0 (3.120.0.0) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 3.120.0.0: icmp_seq=1 ttl=235 time=50.7 ms
64 bytes from 3.120.0.0: icmp_seq=2 ttl=235 time=50.7 ms
^C

It seems like you're better off going to the US over going to Mumbai!

On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 3:00 PM John Von Essen <john at essenz.com> wrote:

> I know this is outside the scope of “North America”, but has anyone else
> been fielding more issues related to network health/congestion in the
> middle east, specifically Israel?
>
> Our users in Israel are primarily served from India-based resources
> (AWS/Azure), both of which have cloud capacity issues in India that I’m
> aware of.
>
> Also, the majority of our users in Israel that have been reporting
> slowness seem to be mostly behind the ISP Bezeq. If we force them to route
> to Ireland (which is technically farther away form a latency standpoint)
> things are much better, so I’m wondering if just Bezeq (or everyone in
> Israel) is just experiencing 3rd party-related network congestion to Mumbai.
>
> Thanks
> John
>
>
>
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