And I think you are underestimating the speed of light ;P. The round-trip latency (twice my distance) from my apartment in Santa Barbara to servers I have in Ne

And I think you are underestimating the speed of light ;P. The round-trip latency (twice my distance) from my apartment in Santa Barbara to servers I have in Nevada and Northern California is 20ms, making me the equivalent of like 11ft away from those places by sound. If I were communicating within San Francisco or Los Angeles I should trivially be able to hit 3ms round trip times.