That’s… Not how internet infrastructure works.
And cables are not in straight lines between you and the destination.
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Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month agoThe earth has a circumference of 25,000 miles, and the speed of light in a fiber cable is 124,000 miles per second, so going the whole way around the earth would take .2 seconds(assuming you could send a signal that far).
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 1 month ago
simplejack@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sure, but infrastructure is not just fiber, and there is a lot of stuff in between your long stretches of fiber.
I’m not a sys ops guy, but I can pull from different data centers and see measurable differences
This is a pretty well known phenomenon. That’s why we have cloud data centers located close to major metro areas.