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I strongly suspect that for an average consumer, latency is driven by the TCP stack on every piece of hardware close to the edge (local machine, router, modem, ISP point of presence) to a much higher degree than the transmission medium or backhaul. Consumer internet has a long way to go before it becomes HFT backhaul-grade.



Well, for a considerable number of consumer deployments, it appears that internal reflection is the main source of latency.

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/network-latencies-a...




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