Could somebody please provide a link to a site showing where the worlds main internet cables are?

This would be useful for me, if I have a big download (ubuntu!) to do.

I would also like to know whether there is usually 1 or more than one main internet gateway into/out of a country. For example, in Thailand, does all international traffic come in/go out through a hub in Bangkok?

What about with other countries?

http://networks.cs.ucdavis.edu/~zhuk/maps/alcatel_large.gif

there is one floating around which shows the bandwidth through the individual cables - I will see if I can find it

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Tec.../SeaCableHi.jpg

undersea cables only though

Edited April 22, 200818 yr by stumonster

I "Googled" "Thailand Internet Map", this was the first hit...

http://www.cat.net.th/internetmap/bigmap.html

You can do traceorutes to satisfy your curiosity.

I "Googled" "Thailand Internet Map", this was the first hit...

http://www.cat.net.th/internetmap/bigmap.html

You can do traceorutes to satisfy your curiosity.

This map is how CAT would like it to be, with all the international traffic going through their IIG (International Internet gateway)!

The following map is the real thing, up to date for April 2008:

To the OP, it'll be a bit of work to find out where to download from, every ISP has different ways to connect to the outside world, and will not always (maybe even seldom) choose the best routing to a certain destination. When doing a traceroute, I'm often completely flabbergasted to find out that I get routed all the way over the USA to a destination in Europe, while both the CAT gateway and the ISP's own international links have much shorter routes to Europe...

In short, the routing tables od the international gateways are very far from being optimized...

Some detailed information re: Internet statistics, maps, history available here:

http://internet.nectec.or.th/webstats/home.iir?Sec=home

This may be the map Monty is referring to:

http://internet.nectec.or.th/internetmap/d...etmap042008.gif

My ISP is CSLoxInfo:

http://www.csloxinfo.com/html/network.asp

If it's to download ubuntu, I think the fastest/error free way would be through bit torrent.

The second best option would be to use Thailand mirror: http://mirror.in.th/ubuntu/ and ftp://mirror.in.th/ubuntu/ (links from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors).