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> If you're off in the woods somewhere far from the cloud, sure, but it's less than 10ms to ping Google.com for me

I'm in one of the biggest cities of my current country, and the RTT to google from me is 87-91ms. Well over 4 million people live within 100km of me, so I suspect they see similar latencies. On my cell, I see 191-207ms.

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That’s a shockingly high latency for a major city! Getting 3ms to google.com here, big city in the Netherlands. Probably close to a data center.

Also in a big city in the Netherlands, but I just blame ziggo. We're getting fiber in my neighborhood ... "soon" ... so we'll see how it is once that happens.

Looks like a good 60ms is nothing but buffer-bloat in the router, as when pinging directly from the router, the RTT is much less.

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