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The industry as a whole has been trying to do this by attacking net neutrality. Things like metered plans create artificial scarcity and allow companies to incr

The industry as a whole has been trying to do this by attacking net neutrality. Things like metered plans create artificial scarcity and allow companies to increase the price of switching packets.

skybrian 8y ago
That's in the retail market which is very different.
samstave 8y ago
Dude, the ping i get on my facebook atlantic cable is like 2ms between here and the .eu shard. What are you getting on that other link?! Ssure they spy on all my stuff but look at that ping!
- wbl 8y ago
  2e-3s*3e8 m/s=6e5m. So no, you are not going to get 2ms transatlantic ping.
  - TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
    Light travels something like 30% slower in fibre optic cable than vacuum. So would be more like 420 kilometres for 2ms.
    - ummonk 8y ago
      And that's round trip, so ~200 km away.
    - C1sc0cat 8y ago
      About .5c for both fibre and copper - from my memories on doing a CCNA a few years back.
mattrp 8y ago
You do raise an interesting point. For ex, I saw this elsewhere on HN: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-02/zuckerberg-op-ed-new-rules-would-hurt-everyone-but-facebook https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-02/zucker...