[____tom____]

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.

[rileymat2]

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]

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]

That is a great one!