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Re:How “latency numbers everybody should know” decreased fro... by thfuran on Thursday March 03, 2022 @07:32PM (#30548996)
No, at the speed of light 150 ms is about long enough to send a packet from SF to Amsterdam and then send the reply back the long way around the entire rest of the planet.
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Re:How “latency numbers everybody should know” decreased fro... by ksec on Friday March 04, 2022 @01:50AM (#30551476)
https://wondernetwork.com/pings/San%20Francisco
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Re:How “latency numbers everybody should know” decreased fro... by thfuran on Friday March 04, 2022 @05:43AM (#30552972)
Yes, that shows that the time could theoretically be roughly halved without even bothering to transmit in a medium with faster propagation than glass fiber.
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