The industry as a whole has been trying to do this by attacking net neutrality. ...

skybrian · on April 4, 2019

That's in the retail market which is very different.

mattrp · on April 4, 2019

You do raise an interesting point. For ex, I saw this elsewhere on HN:

samstave · on April 4, 2019

Dude, the ping i get on my facebook atlantic cable is like 2ms between here and the .eu shard.

What are you getting on that other link?!

Ssure they spy on all my stuff but look at that ping!

wbl · on April 4, 2019

2e-3s*3e8 m/s=6e5m. So no, you are not going to get 2ms transatlantic ping.

TheSpiceIsLife · on April 4, 2019

Light travels something like 30% slower in fibre optic cable than vacuum.

So would be more like 420 kilometres for 2ms.

ummonk · on April 4, 2019

And that's round trip, so ~200 km away.

C1sc0cat · on April 4, 2019

About .5c for both fibre and copper - from my memories on doing a CCNA a few years back.