Since I got my DSL, until a few days ago, all network traffic between home and work (FIU South campus, a five minute drive away) travelled all the way up to Atlanta or Washington before coming back. This resulted in roundtrip times of 90-120ms just to talk to machines on campus only a quick drive away!
This was annoying until a few days ago when Bellsouth started peering at the downtown NAP of the Americas, the same place FIU gets transit through! My roundtrip between home and work is now 9ms, and working on machines at the "other location" feels local!
It's damn sweet, especially since I tend to work from home pretty often. I've measured 800K/sec downloading from FIU hosts and it also makes working on the systems in general a lot easier. Also, peering so close to home means the connection feels faster in general as packets don't have to go to Atlanta or Washington before continuing on their way.
Gotta love it when ISPs actually implement INTELLIGENT network topologies for a change...
Yes, that's real fact.
Yes, that's real fact. Respect to DSL