From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bqt@update.uu.se (Johnny Billquist) Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 00:09:03 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] Ping times In-Reply-To: <589cf55f.iRet/QQ0ldgevhz6%schily@schily.net> References: <5ba92030-a44e-bfd1-6d41-195fc42b46c1@update.uu.se> <589cf55f.iRet/QQ0ldgevhz6%schily@schily.net> Message-ID: On 2017-02-10 00:03, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Johnny Billquist wrote: > >> Meh. From Uppsala in Sweden I seem to have about 2ms ping time to 8.8.8.8... >> >> Psilocybe:update/bqt> ping 8.8.8.8 >> PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data. >> 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=1 ttl=56 time=2.10 ms > > You seem to live in a location where the light speed is higher than usual ;-) > > 1ms = 300 km in my area. > > Berlin <-> SF is aprox. 9100 km :-) Well, it should be obvious that Google is not serving everything from SF. In fact, pretty much nothing is served from there... They have many datacenters, and they also want their egress traffic to come out as close as possible to the destination. My traceroute was still 11 hops, but nowhere near SF... Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol