That is impressive, but you've basically just checked whether cloudfare has a POP in Ontario, or atleast within 2-3ms of your datacenter. They both have POPs l

That is impressive, but you've basically just checked whether cloudfare has a POP in Ontario, or atleast within 2-3ms of your datacenter. They both have POPs local to me: eggplant:~ tsl$ wget http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js --2013-03-22 19:29:21-- http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js Resolving cdnjs.cloudflare.com... 141.101.123.8, 190.93.240.8, 190.93.241.8, ... Connecting to cdnjs.cloudflare.com|141.101.123.8|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [application/x-javascript] Saving to: ‘jquery.min.js’ [ <=> ] 92,629 --.-K/s in 0.04s 2013-03-22 19:29:21 (2.03 MB/s) - ‘jquery.min.js’ saved [92629] eggplant:~ tsl$ wget http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js --2013-03-22 19:42:05-- http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js Resolving ajax.googleapis.com... 173.194.75.95, 2607:f8b0:400c:c01::5f Connecting to ajax.googleapis.com|173.194.75.95|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/javascript] Saving to: ‘jquery.min.js.1’ [ <=> ] 92,629 --.-K/s in 0.05s 2013-03-22 19:42:05 (1.62 MB/s) - ‘jquery.min.js.1’ saved [92629] Just to drive home how much locality matters: tsl@beast:/volumes/fast$ wget http://nas.***.com/jquery.min.js --20:00:05-- http://nas.***.com/jquery.min.js => `jquery.min.js' Resolving nas.***.com... 10.10.10.2, fd2b:2048:4633:10::2 Connecting to nas.***.com|10.10.10.2|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 92,629 (90K) [application/javascript] 100%[====================================>] 92,629 --.--K/s 20:00:05 (63.00 MB/s) - `jquery.min.js' saved [92629/92629] Looks like my single core ARM6 nas is the best in my neighborhood.