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I'd be shocked if my latency to Google were even as high as 50 ms. Though downloading http will take 3 round trips for http and four round trips for https which

by ummonk 6y ago

I'd be shocked if my latency to Google were even as high as 50 ms. Though downloading http will take 3 round trips for http and four round trips for https which will add up if the connection isn't kept alive after each download. Edit: just tested and got these numbers for myself: 7-13ms to ping google.com 50-80ms to curl http://google.com http://google.com 90-130ms to curl https://google.com https://google.com 140-160ms to curl http://google.com http://google.com http://google.com http://google.com http://google.com http://google.com http://google.com http://google.com http://google.com http://google.com 180-220ms to curl https://google.com https://google.com https://google.com https://google.com https://google.com https://google.com https://google.com https://google.com https://google.com https://google.com So should be able to download something like 20-30 copies of google with keep-alive, and ~10 without.

Junk_Collector 6y ago
You're absolutely right and speeds to Google have gotten much faster over time. For what it's worth, I just ran a quick ping test and got 26ms average latency to google.com so I should have checked before I posted. Thanks for keeping me in check. Still this is dependent on where you are, your ISP, other general factors, and it's still within an order of magnitude which was the point of the "quiz"