On: Google Fiber: 151Mbps down / 92Mbps up

[moe]

Your country may be big, but it's not that big.

Physical coast to coast distance is 15 light-milliseconds.

[icehawk → moe]

15ms, one way, in a vacuum, going directly.

When you start to factor in things like the fact that light travels 1/3 as fast in a glass fiber as it does in vacuum, routing overhead, and the fact that ping is a round-trip measurement, 60-100ms is about normal.

[onemoreact → moe]

15 milliseconds * 2 (ping = round trip time) * 1.52 (~index of refraction in fiber) = 45.6ms straight line. Add in routing dilays and less than optimal paths and your quickly hit 60-100 ms.

[sukuriant → moe]

Those are the latencies I expect, though. And literal coast to coast distance does not take into account the structure of the network.