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...and latency has a hard physical limit at c/distance.
by Piskvorrr 9y ago
...and latency has a hard physical limit at c/distance.
- comboy 9y agodistance/c
- Piskvorrr 9y agoOh. Right you are.
- plafl 9y agoI was curious about latency and did the following calculations: considering Earth radius (6370km), the minimum distance to your antipodes would be 20000km. Light speed is 300e3 km/s, this means that the minimum time to reach them would be aprox 66ms. I'm in Madrid, Spain. My antipodes would be New Zealand. I searched for "server in New Zealand" which gave me for example www.vpscity.co.nz which I will assume is physically located in New Zealand. Traceroute shows 13 hops taking 310ms round trip time so it's taking 155ms to reach the antipodes and the minimum time is 66ms. I know nothing about networking but I'm impressed.