I did the same math, got a similar result. I found that getting data from one side of the earth to the other should be about 17.4% faster in space. Since the e

I did the same math, got a similar result. I found that getting data from one side of the earth to the other should be about 17.4% faster in space. Since the earth is 6,378 km in radius, adding another 1,150 km only makes the circumference about 18% longer.