[makeworld]

> In reality, the ping you’ll experience will be worse, at around 215ms (which is a pretty amazing feat in and of itself - all those factors above only double the time it takes to get from Sydney to the eastern US).

Isn't it double just because ping measures round trip time?

[josephcsible]

No, that was already accounted for. 52ms is the one-way time and 104ms is the round-trip time in the theoretical best case.