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How are you getting those single digit times? I can never get below 15 ms for both Google and CloudFlare. Any tips to improve this or its beyond my control?

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If you're using a cable or DSL modem, most of that latency is from the signal modulation between you and your ISP.

Big cities are within half a ms range of various PoPs and IXes on fiber. Makes it possible to go even below 0.5 ms.

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