Does this really work? I would think the ping time would not be dominated by speed of light, but by number of hops, and connection quality.

As a hypothetical example, an IP in a New York City data center is likely to have a shorted ping to a London data center, than a rural New York IP address.

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rileymat2 7 hours ago | parent [-]

The speed of light sets a minimum bound even if you don't account for that, and these are coming up less than the minimum bound.

It also reminds me of this old story: https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles

	▲	s0rce 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Would be even slower as the light will travel slower in the optical fiber and there will be time associated with each repeater as well.
	▲	fragmede 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That is a great one!