I've never heard of people quoting their ping time based on the closed DC to them. Let's say you're playing a game (fortnite, for example). You have a ping time

I've never heard of people quoting their ping time based on the closed DC to them. Let's say you're playing a game (fortnite, for example). You have a ping time based on where that server is. It may be across the country from you, and there's nothing you can do about that to make it better. Their ping time will not be anywhere near 20ms as that tweet alluded to. I'm pinging google.com on a fiber connection right now, which would go to one of their load-balanced DNS entries. I get 30ms. When people say you have 30ms of latency, they expect that latency for the normal things they do, not in some artificial test of path delay. Otherwise traditional satellite is 480ms and not 600ms, and fiber is 15ms and not 30-40ms.