Ah. How I would have killed for a 100ms ping back in my 56k modem days. My avera...

scaramanga · on Jan 16, 2023

man, from my memory, if you were getting 250, you were incredibly lucky and probably lived close to the exchange :)

300-350 was more the norm for where i was.

bbarnett · on Jan 16, 2023

It’s amazing how times change, now I get annoyed when my ping is higher than 30ms.

That's because 2sec of ping is used to request 124 fonts, each using one char.