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Einenlum01/21/20251 replyview on HN

It's not because you have a Hungarian number that you're not travelling somewhere else. I don't really understand the point.


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herczegzsolt01/21/2025

When I am traveling, i most likely use my mobile data. That data is tunneled to my mobile provider, exiting to the public internet at exactly the same server.

In my case, Cloudflare will identify me as BUD even when i'm roaming at a different country.

This behavior is very typical for the EU, because the telco landscape is fairly fragmented, and each company typically have only one, or at most 2 peering locations.

This may be different within the US where the distances are bigger, and latencies matter more, so there is more incentive to peer locally.