Given that speed of light is ~3×10⁸ m/s an additional ~1,000 km (10⁶ m) up and down and back again would increase latency on the order of ~10 ms (10⁻² s). ~10

Given that speed of light is ~3×10⁸ m/s an additional ~1,000 km (10⁶ m) up and down and back again would increase latency on the order of ~10 ms (10⁻² s). ~10 ms of additional latency isn’t wildly out-of-sync with real world latencies of ~40 ms within North America and ~70 ms across the Atlantic. [1] And if we factor in the ~30% reduction of speed of light in fiber, the delta might actually be less than ~10 ms. [1]: https://enterprise.verizon.com/terms/latency/ https://enterprise.verizon.com/terms/latency/