Time Warner Cable Starts to Worry About Google Fiber → Re: Here is what happened last time...

I am curious as to what it is about local peering that is interests you. From the research I did it seems to be about agreements between or among ISPs. Unless you are an ISP, I do not see any issues for a retail customer to concern themselves with. What am I missing in my research that explains your view of this issue better?

The lower latency ~7ms to any datacenter in KC, and knowing that all your traffic is not even leaving the area when you go to these places. Also it means lower latency over all. I get on avg. 30ms lower latency with Surewest than I did with TWC as they route all traffic to Chicago before being handed off.

Tracing route to 1and1.com [74.208.4.12]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
 
  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.0.1
  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  3     4 ms     5 ms     5 ms  64-126-2-213.static.everestkc.net[64.126.2.213]
 
  4     5 ms     7 ms     5 ms  64-126-2-5.static.everestkc.net [64.126.2.5]
  5     5 ms     5 ms     5 ms  64-126-2-14.static.everestkc.net [64.126.2.14]
  6     6 ms     7 ms     6 ms  te-4-2.car1.KansasCity1.Level3.net [4.53.32.33]
 
  7     6 ms    11 ms     5 ms  11-INTERNET.car1.KansasCity1.Level3.net [4.53.32.10]
  8     6 ms     7 ms     7 ms  te-2-2.bb-d.slr.lxa.us.oneandone.net [74.208.1.77]
  9    27 ms     7 ms     9 ms  ae-2.gw-dists-a.slr.lxa.us.oneandone.net [74.208.1.115]
 10     7 ms     7 ms     7 ms  www.1and1.com [74.208.4.12]
 
Trace complete.
 

Tracing route to joesdatacenter.com [96.43.134.146]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
 
  1    <1 ms     *       <1 ms  192.168.0.1
  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  3     6 ms     6 ms     6 ms  64-126-2-213.static.everestkc.net [64.126.2.213]
 
  4   187 ms   102 ms     6 ms  64-126-2-5.static.everestkc.net [64.126.2.5]
  5    10 ms     6 ms     6 ms  64-126-2-22.static.everestkc.net [64.126.2.22]
  6     6 ms     7 ms     7 ms  te0-0-0-4.ccr21.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com [38.104.86.101]
  7     9 ms     7 ms     7 ms  te0-2-0-0.mpd22.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.30.158]
  8     7 ms     7 ms     7 ms  te2-1.mag02.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.30.166]
  9     7 ms     7 ms     9 ms  38.104.86.74
 10     8 ms     9 ms    13 ms  SW1.KCMODATACENTER.COM [96.43.134.6]
 11     7 ms     7 ms     7 ms  96.43.134.146
 
Trace complete.