Icloud privacy relay performance in the SEA region

I notice icloud privacy relay uses 2 network provides in Malaysia. Ip address 172.x.x.x is Akamai tech and 104.x.x.x is cloudflare.

I just want to point out that performance with the 104.x.x.x group of ip addresses (which I assume is cloudflare), is very bad. With akamai tech, I get nearly full wire speed (more than 400mbps sometimes) and ping times of 10 ms etc to local servers.

With cloudflare, I get 10 to 20 mbps on my 500 mbit line, and ping times to the same local servers of 180-200 ms.

Thank you.

Posted on Nov 8, 2021 2:13 AM

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