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A comment on It's the Latency, Stupid (1996).

Re:It's the Latency, Stupid (1996) by lilpirate on Saturday May 31, 2014 @10:12PM (#7827918)
I've connection from a tier-1 network in India. It's a 6 mbps dedicated line (a luxury for most) connected with fibre. ping 8.8.8.8 has delay time of ~40 ms. How's that possible considering the calculations given in this article?
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Re:It's the Latency, Stupid (1996) by kalleboo on Saturday May 31, 2014 @10:32PM (#7827947)
Google have a node close to you. Try traceroute.
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