4 ms·

Not unheard of in Europe. I had a connection with <10ms pings to Quake3 Servers in Frankfurt Germany (~300km) 7 years ago.

• coldtea 11y ago
  Well, obviously, for 300km yes, since light does that in 2ms roundtrip. But that's for stuff mirrored locally like those Quake3 servers. When you get stuff from US datacenters etc you'll suffer even more than 20ms.
  • kayoone 11y ago
    i understand that, just saying that not every country has these insane distances like the US, as even most US content is mirrored on CDNs that are usually pretty close.
    • coldtea 11y ago
      I think the mirrored thing is mostly for assets -- js, images etc. For most smaller websites it's one server somewhere (for the majority of them actually co-hosted with other sites in a single location/box). And for most large websites outside of the very big (e.g. FB and Google), it's at best a few locations around the world, e.g. e.g. US east/west/mid, 1 in Europe, one in Asia, etc, and often even less. So the distances involved do get large there too.