Probably not much. I'd love to be wrong tho. Best possible fibre speed LA to Sydney is about 120ms. Not sure what the minimum additional latency for packet han

Probably not much. I'd love to be wrong tho. Best possible fibre speed LA to Sydney is about 120ms. Not sure what the minimum additional latency for packet handling is.. but I did a few test.. Via one looking glass service, I get 215ms, LA to Melbourne. Traceroute shows 12 hops.. but the path goes via Perth and Singapore.... Via another, I get 170ms, traceroute shows 22 hops, but with a more direct physical path, at appears to go Sydney > Hawaii > LA. I was going to dis Telstra here because the first lg result is from their pop in LA.. but the second result includes a bunch of telstra hops - although the international ones appear to be level3 The first one appears to be telstra for the international hops so maybe I can bag on them. My point t being that there's already faster that 250ms available, but we're at the mercy of the providers routing policies. So I guess it'll help if it convinces telstra there's a competitive reason to improve.. but I'm sceptical in the short to medium term.