When I traceroute
some servers I notice that the path taken is not geographically ideal:
I am in the UK's South-West.
My request goes into London, then annoyingly goes North of London (to Leicester) for 2 hops and returns to London before going to Europe.
How do I get my requests to this address to take a more efficient route?
I realise now that locating IP addresses geographically is not extremely accurate, so in fact the path may not look like this.
However, is there a way I can more directly access servers to try to decrease latency?