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by _squared_ 2410 days ago
> It's a link in the SF Bay Area, and the server is in Texas, so it has to get out there and back. That's at least 50 milliseconds right there when measured by a boring old ping.

Am I the only one surprised by this 50ms ping? I can reach cloud servers in the SF Bay Area from Paris in 50ms - and I'm on wifi. Surely SFO-TX should take much less time..?
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Thorrez 2410 days ago
According to this it takes 42ms to get from Paris to SF at the speed of light in a fiber in the great circle path across Earth's surface. Ping is rtt, so that would be 84ms.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=paris+to+san+francisco...

On the topic of websites taking a long time to compute something, Wolfram Alpha is slow. I wonder if any of that slowness is artificial like flight price websites.

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