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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!




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


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

So would be more like 420 kilometres for 2ms.


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


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




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