> In this scenario you would basically have to have 25 round trips to bring the site from 5 seconds to 1 second You’re forgetting that the TCP protocol itself

> In this scenario you would basically have to have 25 round trips to bring the site from 5 seconds to 1 second You’re forgetting that the TCP protocol itself is bidirectional. High latency connections will have lower throughout, especially at the beginning of transmission, because the data isn’t literally just streaming in one direction.