Low cost China peering with tunnel

bobert

I have a server in Tokyo, has high packet loss to mainland China.

Wondering if I can get outbound to China with my own IP with a gre tunnel (I think only outbound is congested, might be wrong though).

Just looking for good ping/loss to the main eyeball networks in China (Unicom, Telecom, Mobile) doesn't have to be cn2. Tokyo or Hong Kong.

Bandwidth usage is modest and steady. 99% of this traffic is non-chinese though I'd expect some more chinese users if this works.

      day        rx      |     tx      |    total    |   avg. rate
 ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
 2023-08-16    11.98 GiB |   43.94 GiB |   55.92 GiB |    5.56 Mbit/s
 2023-08-17    12.11 GiB |   44.45 GiB |   56.56 GiB |    5.62 Mbit/s
 2023-08-18    14.67 GiB |   54.82 GiB |   69.49 GiB |    6.91 Mbit/s
 2023-08-19     9.10 GiB |   34.51 GiB |   43.62 GiB |    7.10 Mbit/s

yoursunny

Have you contacted China Telecom to setup peering?
https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/4134

China Telecom is present in several IXPs in Europe and Africa, but none in Japan.
https://bgp.tools/as/4134#ix
You may have better chance of successful peering if you move your server to South Africa.

bobert

No that is too far for me. I want < 90 ms ping to china.

Neoon

The cheapest CN2 would be https://www.alibabacloud.com/free
Available in Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Mine was 2TB of Traffic on 10Mbit for 16$/y, the current offers are not as good, though still cheap as fuck.

YABS: https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/127818#Comment_127818

bobert

@Neoon said:
The cheapest CN2 would be https://www.alibabacloud.com/free

I'm aware of that, but I'd like to use my own ip.

I'm anycasting my /24 so I can split it around the world with servers in US and Europe, and it looks like alibaba byoip does not look like a real BGP session. So if I let them announce the ip it's going to pick up traffic everywhere and send it back to china and make me pay for their expensive bandwidth.