[ExI] mbrains and latency

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 5:51 AM Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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 google.com [enter]  then do ping
> australia.gov.au [enter]  compare times.
>

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 google.com
I got roughly 60 ms, compared to only about 5.6 ms to australia.gov.au.
Pinging nyse.com got about 6.4 ms, and londonstockexchange.com about 6.5
ms, while ca.gov was about 5 ms.  The distance factor was there but there
was probably something going on with Google's servers.
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