> (or more accurately, the speed of electricity, which is close to the speed of light, at about 300,000 kilometers per second) Surely, the dominant part of the

> (or more accurately, the speed of electricity, which is close to the speed of light, at about 300,000 kilometers per second) Surely, the dominant part of the path city to city is via fiber, so laser light? That doesn't mean that's were most of the time goes (but ideally it should) - for latency things like light-to-signal, buffers, switching, carrier grade nat, all takes its toll. Would be interesting to see a detailed breakdown of typical data center(... Cell phone, home broadband user) to same, though. Including every "point" in the path from ram, via cache, pci, network card, routers and switches, media converters and up again... For bonus something like USB keyboard touch to glyph on screen over udp or other low latency protocol...