[Primal] The end of Level3? Reason to cheer?

[Malzian]

Unfortunately Level 3 is a large internet backbone, and routing through them is usually determined by ISPs, not SE or their Montreal server host. So they're, more than likely, still going to be present for a significant portion of the playbase even with the NA data centers moving to central US.

Yep, exactly. To put it in layman's terms.... Level3 doesn't run the trucks on the roads, Level3 manages the roads themselves. Your ISPs are just sending traffic over those roads.... trucks don't do well on roads that are bad.

To get a better idea of the network, page 2 of this really makes it clear: http://www.level3.com/~/media/files/...twork-map.ashx

[Kosmos992k]

Yep, exactly. To put it in layman's terms.... Level3 doesn't run the trucks on the roads, Level3 manages the roads themselves. Your ISPs are just sending traffic over those roads.... trucks don't do well on roads that are bad.

To get a better idea of the network, page 2 of this really makes it clear: http://www.level3.com/~/media/files/...twork-map.ashx

While it's true that Level 3 is 'everywhere', they serve some areas better than others and their network is more resilient in some areas than others, with alternate routing and alternate capacity. Moving from Canada to somewhere in the mid west may improve things, it might at least reduce the number of hops for the majority of NA customers.

Perhaps if the playerbase stopped blaming Level 3 for issues that didn't even involve their network and the false reporting of many media sources that clearly have no knowledge of how the internet works.

Is no where safe from accusations of false reporting, fake news and alternate facts?