[copula4]

There is life outside major population centers. I have pings in excess of 200 ms to many major websites; if every DNS lookup requires doing several queries with 100-300 ms of waiting for each one, the web becomes unusable. From reading HN, users from e.g. New Zealand run into similar issues.

[Bender]

I too am in a rural area, just not as rural as NZ. My setup would also be 0ms in NZ and AU for 98+% of my requests. The real impactful delays come from the excessive requests browsers have to make to bloated frameworks, excessive cookies and third party integrations, ads, videos and so on. uBlock can clean some of that up but not all of it.