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[glatt]

When I first got FIOS, my brother the programmer guy checked my ping to see if I could do some beta testing with his online gaming company. He was blown away by my number, as it was the fastest he had ever seen. I think it was an 8 or 9 then.

But I had no time for gaming, so it never happened.

Maybe it has something to do with all the intelligence agencies around here. But they can't be using the same fiber networks I use, can they?

[glatt]

And looking back through the thread, I see my employer has a fast connection with a 5ms ping. We've got like 500 VOIP phones here in this building.

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by glatt

Maybe it has something to do with all the intelligence agencies around here. But they can't be using the same fiber networks I use, can they?

I imagine a lot is just how close you physically are to a lot of the major switches of the entire Internets. I don't know exactly how the backbones route these days, but the whole schmear pretty much grew up around Vienna, and all of NoVA. It used to be that to get a packet from Philly to Pittsburgh you had to go through NoVA.

[Dude111]

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