Internet peering and transit

Compare peering and IP transit on more than an advertised maximum speed or plan name. Access technology, resources, isolation, routing, peering/transit, address policy and support all matter. Two services with similar headline specifications can behave differently under load.

What to compare before choosing

Define the real workload: calls, gaming, inbound services, APIs, websites or storage. For an ISP compare evening throughput, latency, CGNAT/public IP and routes; for hosting compare resources, isolation, backup and management responsibility; for routing look at the ASN and actual path.

The detail that matters

Peering exchanges traffic between networks under an interconnection arrangement; transit pays another network to provide reachability beyond the customer’s own routes. BGP policy, not physical distance alone, determines which available path is selected and advertised. For the comparison described above, open 2ip provider network lookup.