I saw a map of undersea internet cables the other day and it’s crazy how many branches there are. It got me wondering - if I’m (based in the UK) playing an online game from someone in Japan for example, how is the route worked out? Does my ISP know that to get to place X, the data has to be routed via cable 1, cable 2 etc. but to get to place Z it needs to go via cable 3, 4?

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    7 months ago

    yeah, it’s interesting to see in comments and other communities as well.

    The vast majority of accounts seem to be on lemmy world though. Which is interesting.