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< 1ms (pinging localhost)

267 votes / 1%

= 1ms to < 5ms (servers are across the street)

152 votes / 0%

= 5ms to < 20ms (same US state)

1002 votes / 4%

= 20ms to < 40ms (fellow US citizen)

3920 votes / 18%

= 40ms to < 80ms (same continent)

5544 votes / 25%

= 80ms to < 150ms (a pond divides us)

6693 votes / 30%

= 150ms to < 200ms (many hops later...)

1728 votes / 7%

Over >=200ms (still stuck on dialup, or in space)

2450 votes / 11%

21756 total votes.

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Odd (Score:5, Funny)

by RightwingNutjob ( 1302813 ) writes: on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @08:03PM (#43531411)

First-ish vote/post and I'm at 40 msec. Shouldn't the first vote have come from the 1 msec crowd?

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Re:Odd (Score:5, Funny)

by neo00 ( 1667377 ) writes: on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @09:01PM (#43531939)

Simple. The <1ms crowd were obviously busy trying to get full root access.

Once they manage, you'll see their first post magically appears!

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Negative ping times (Score:5, Funny)

by gameboyhippo ( 827141 ) writes: on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @10:15AM (#43536221) Journal

Since I'm in KC (home to Google Fiber), my ping times are in the negatives. Google knows what I want to ping before I do!

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