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Re:Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gami... by burke on Friday July 10, 2015 @07:08PM (#9867526)
I'm ~2 light-ms from us-east-1, and my latency is 49ms. My latency is 11 times what it would be if there were a direct fiber run from my laptop to us-east-1.
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Re:Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gami... by leni536 on Saturday July 11, 2015 @04:00AM (#9868979)
Just for nitpicking, light doesn't travel the same speed in fiber as in vacuum. AFAIK the refraction index of the core is typically ~1.45 so your latency is "only" around 8 times larger than the theoretical limit.
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