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		makeworld on June 29, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Noticing when an app is only hosted in us-east-1 > In reality, the ping you’ll experience will be worse, at around 215ms (which is a pretty amazing feat in and of itself - all those factors above only double the time it takes to get from Sydney to the eastern US). Isn't it double just because ping measures round trip time?

josephcsible on June 29, 2023 [–]

No, that was already accounted for. 52ms is the one-way time and 104ms is the round-trip time in the theoretical best case.

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