<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 6, 2023, 11:15 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 5:51 AM Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Latency is still a problem. Even with nearest neighbors at millimeter distance, farthest neighbors are on the other side of the star. Current internet latency already drives stock trading computers to reside in hotels near enough to NYSE to keep network response to ~2ms. To see this for yourself, open cmd.exe and do: ping <a href="http://google.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">google.com</a> [enter] then do ping <a href="http://australia.gov.au" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">australia.gov.au</a> [enter] compare times.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>How very odd. I am in Mountain View, California, which is Google's HQ. My ping to their servers should be almost nothing. And yet, pinging <a href="http://google.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">google.com</a> I got roughly 60 ms, compared to only about 5.6 ms to <a href="http://australia.gov.au" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">australia.gov.au</a>. Pinging <a href="http://nyse.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">nyse.com</a> got about 6.4 ms, and <a href="http://londonstockexchange.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">londonstockexchange.com</a> about 6.5 ms, while <a href="http://ca.gov" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ca.gov</a> was about 5 ms. The distance factor was there but there was probably something going on with Google's servers.</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That is interesting. I expected google to employ distributed local-to-you IP like so many CDN. Perhaps amazon would have been a better example? You might be logically close to Australia or you might have phenomenally better network service than I do.</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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