Performance levels between USA and UK

[Simon606]

I’m moving my web server from the US to the UK.

Would I be roughly right in assuming that an American customer accessing a UK server will see similar speeds to what I have been getting as a UK customer accessing the same site on a US server?

[piatkow]

I find that the variations in connection speed from my ISP mask any differences between US and UK servers

[topr8]

i find that i connect to my uk hosted sites quicker than the american hosted ones (uk based)

... not when all is well, but if there is a problem with one of the interconnections.

when i run a trace route there would typically only be a few hops from me to a uk hosted site but around 20 to a us based site, if there is a problem with just 1 of those hops then it can slow things down a lot.

the way i see it the more computers teh packet is being routed throught the greater the chance of a slow down.

i know this isn't an answer to the original question which was basically does an american get the 'verso' connection to what a brit would get - which i don't know the answer of.

[vordmeister]

I'm thinking about moving back to the US from the UK. From the UK I can access sites hosted in the US like WebmasterWorld faster than my 0 load dedicated in the UK.

It's not about country - hop across the atlantic is just 0.1s which nobody will notice. It's other couple of seconds due to routing issues or overtrafficed UK networks that are the issue for me.