Possible routing issue, git.gnome.org

[Simos Xenitellis <simos lists googlemail com>]

Just to add here that

1. For svn.gnome.org being in Europe, ping responses are very quick
(4.5ms, from UK academic network),
which probably have spoiled some ;-).
2. From Europe, git.gnome.org is 26 hops away in my case.
The ICMP response is about 216ms while other typical US websites are
under 140ms.

Here is the 'mtr git.gnome.org'. It shows that five hops correspond to
Telia.net servers and nine for Level3.net.
The remaining four hops that show IP addresses that are still Level3
routers. Therefore, 13 Level3 routers in total.

 9. ldn-b4-link.telia.net
                              0.0%    31   34.2   9.9   3.3 101.1
18.9
10. ldn-bb2-link.telia.net
                              0.0%    31    3.2  10.5   3.2  97.4
22.8
    ldn-bb2-link.telia.net
    ldn-bb1-link.telia.net
    ldn-bb2-link.telia.net
    ldn-bb1-link.telia.net
    ldn-bb1-link.telia.net
    ldn-bb1-link.telia.net
    ldn-bb2-link.telia.net
11. ash-bb1-link.telia.net
                              0.0%    31   79.2  79.8  78.8  86.8
1.8
    ash-bb1-link.telia.net
    ash-bb1-link.telia.net
    ash-bb1-link.telia.net
12. level3-ic-130870-ash-bb1.c.telia.net
                              0.0%    31   78.9  82.7  78.8 138.6
12.3
    level3-ic-126699-ash-bb1.c.telia.net
    level3-113898-ash-bb1.telia.net
13. vlan89.csw3.Washington1.Level3.net
                              0.0%    31   80.3  84.2  79.4  93.8
4.3
    vlan99.csw4.Washington1.Level3.net
    vlan79.csw2.Washington1.Level3.net
14. ae-74-74.ebr4.Washington1.Level3.net
                              9.7%    31   85.9  85.2  80.0  91.9
3.9
    ae-94-94.ebr4.Washington1.Level3.net
    ae-84-84.ebr4.Washington1.Level3.net
15. ae-3-3.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net
                              0.0%    31   80.1  79.8  79.2  82.5
0.6
16. ae-91-91.csw4.NewYork1.Level3.net
                              0.0%    31   82.2  85.6  80.2  96.6
4.4
17. ae-94-94.ebr4.NewYork1.Level3.net
                              0.0%    31   86.2  85.2  79.4  92.1
4.1
18. ae-2.ebr4.SanJose1.Level3.net
                              0.0%    31  153.3 156.1 151.0 164.3
4.2
19. ae-84-84.csw3.SanJose1.Level3.net
                              0.0%    31  150.9 156.1 150.7 164.4
4.3
20. ae-33-89.car3.SanJose1.Level3.net
                              6.5%    31  152.0 167.4 151.0 313.5
46.5
21. te-4-1-73.rp0-1.snjsca13.Level3.net
                             29.0%    31  151.4 151.5 151.0 152.7
0.4
22. 216.140.3.65
                              0.0%    31  154.8 155.2 154.2 158.8
1.1
23. 216.140.0.65
                              0.0%    31  154.6 154.7 154.1 156.3
0.5
24. 216.140.3.182
                              0.0%    31  212.3 212.9 212.1 215.9
0.7
25. 216.142.38.22
                              0.0%    30  216.5 226.3 216.3 324.2
25.5
26. git.gnome.org
                              0.0%    30  218.2 217.4 216.3 219.5
0.8

Could that be a routing issue with Level3.net that affects in some way
the speed of clones?
Other European users seeing a similar image?

Simos