It's not exactly a measurement of "user to content" but CAIDA has swarms of Raspberry Pi nodes all over the world, that constantly measure... well, a lot of things, but they continually also monitor traceroute paths to each other. If you're looking for a "average length from any one node to any other node on the Internet" you'd likely find some good data points here.
https://www.caida.org/projects/ark/statistics/ Sincerely, Casey Russell Network Engineer [image: KanREN] <http://www.kanren.net> [image: phone]785-856-9809 2029 Becker Drive, Suite 282 Lawrence, Kansas 66047 [image: linkedin] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/92399?trk=tyah&trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Acompany%2CclickedEntityId%3A92399%2Cidx%3A1-1-1%2CtarId%3A1440002635645%2Ctas%3AKanREN> [image: twitter] <https://twitter.com/TheKanREN> [image: twitter] <http://www.kanren.net/feed/> need support? <supp...@kanren.net> On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 11:10 AM Christopher Morrow <morrowc.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 8:48 PM Hal Murray < > hgm+na...@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net> wrote: > >> >> Keith Medcalf said: >> > "just static content" would be more accurate ... >> >> and using http rather than https >> >> > There were many attempts at this by Johhny-cum-lately ISPs back in the >> 90's >> > -- particularly Telco and Cableco's -- with their "transparent poxies". >> > Eventually they discovered that it was more cost efficient to actually >> > provide the customer with what the customer had purchased. >> >> One of the complications in this area is an extra layer of logging which >> could >> turn into privacy invasion. >> >> I'm pretty sure it was Comcast, but a quick search didn't find a good >> reference. Many years ago, there were a lot of complaints when customers >> > > did you mean the 'sandvine experiment' that happened ~10 yrs back? > or did you mean the plan verizon had to proxy all http/https traffic from > consumer (fios/dsl) links through their gear so they could replace ad > content and such? > or did you mean the various (barefruit/nominim/paxfire) dns fake-answer > companies that dropped your customer on their "search platform" for > monetization? > > fairly much all of those are a wreck for consumer privacy :( > > >> discovered that their transparent proxy web site traffic was getting >> logged. >> Comcast said they weren't using it for anything beyond normal operations >> work, >> but nobody believed them. Shortly after that, they gave up on proxying. >> >> I'm sure the general reputation of modern Telcos and Cablecos for privacy >> invasion didn't help. >> >> > it's a rough business to be in, they say... but invading privacy of their > users makes things seem a heck of a lot worse. > > >> >> -- >> These are my opinions. I hate spam. >> >> >> >>
