J.R. Mauro wrote:
The author found that from klondike.cis.upenn.edu <> cs.standford.edu added about 50ms to the round tripWhat kind of latency?For speed of light in fibre optic 30ms is about 8000km (New York to San Francisco and back)Assuming you have a direct fiber connection with no routers in between. I would say that is somewhat rare.