[snuxoll]

Which fiber only helps considering the speed of light. WiFi in my house is acting up right now, but even considering that I "only" have 1ms latency to my pfSense VM after traversing my layer 3 switch in my office, but from there it takes 2.5ms (up to 4ms) minimum to travel over copper to the head node with my cable company - from there it takes 1.5ms to reach zayo's fiber backbone, and then 5ms to reach all the way to Seattle from Boise, ID. Let that sink it, it takes as much time to hop from Boise, ID to Seattle, WA as it does for me to even get a packet to that link.

5ms shaved down to 1ms (one-way) with decent fiber could take my ping to Google DNS from 23ms to 15ms, that's going from Boise, ID through Seattle, WA all the way down to CA where the Google DNS server I am hitting is located - a rather considerable savings.