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While I somewhat agree with the premise, "Plop one in Virginia and you can get the English speaking world in under 100ms of latency." is just false (unless you

While I somewhat agree with the premise, "Plop one in Virginia and you can get the English speaking world in under 100ms of latency." is just false (unless you only count the US+UK as "English speaking", ignoring the rest of the Commonwealth...).

MichaelRo 3y ago
It's implied from context that he means "US-English" :)
Turing_Machine 3y ago
Well, there's Canada, Ireland, and the English-speaking islands of the Caribbean, also. The equatorial African nations aren't that much farther away than Great Britain. Of course that does still leave out Southern Africa, India and Australia.
- aragilar 3y ago
  There's great-circle distance and then there's internet-cable distance though (I'm not sure what the path to equatorial Africa is for example, but I can imagine it being bad and not direct at all). But yes, I primarily thinking Asia/Oceania (you forgot New Zealand! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/02/jacinda-ardern-asks-why-new-zealand-is-left-off-world-maps-in-new-tourism-campaign https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/02/jacinda-ardern...), given that people do forget how big the world is, and how noticeable the latency is.
  - Turing_Machine 3y ago
    > I'm not sure what the path to equatorial Africa is for example, but I can imagine it being bad and not direct at all I realized that I didn't actually know, either. https://mybroadband.co.za/news/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/TeleGeography-submarine-cable-map.jpg https://mybroadband.co.za/news/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Te... I don't know how credible this map is, but it appears to match all the others I was able to find in a quick image search. I picked this one because it's larger and shows more detail than some of the others. It looks like equatorial Africa is reasonably well connected to the Americas and Europe. I'm sure connectivity is crap once you get out of the large coastal cities, but on the other hand it's pretty crap in Alaska and the Canadian interior, too (at least before Starlink came along).

MichaelRo 3y ago

It's implied from context that he means "US-English" :)

Turing_Machine 3y ago

Well, there's Canada, Ireland, and the English-speaking islands of the Caribbean, also. The equatorial African nations aren't that much farther away than Great Britain. Of course that does still leave out Southern Africa, India and Australia.

aragilar 3y ago
There's great-circle distance and then there's internet-cable distance though (I'm not sure what the path to equatorial Africa is for example, but I can imagine it being bad and not direct at all). But yes, I primarily thinking Asia/Oceania (you forgot New Zealand! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/02/jacinda-ardern-asks-why-new-zealand-is-left-off-world-maps-in-new-tourism-campaign https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/02/jacinda-ardern...), given that people do forget how big the world is, and how noticeable the latency is.
- Turing_Machine 3y ago
  > I'm not sure what the path to equatorial Africa is for example, but I can imagine it being bad and not direct at all I realized that I didn't actually know, either. https://mybroadband.co.za/news/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/TeleGeography-submarine-cable-map.jpg https://mybroadband.co.za/news/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Te... I don't know how credible this map is, but it appears to match all the others I was able to find in a quick image search. I picked this one because it's larger and shows more detail than some of the others. It looks like equatorial Africa is reasonably well connected to the Americas and Europe. I'm sure connectivity is crap once you get out of the large coastal cities, but on the other hand it's pretty crap in Alaska and the Canadian interior, too (at least before Starlink came along).