Lower Latency

[Evil]

Sounds awesome. Let's game on!

[Fluffy Frufflebottoms]

Heh, the distance between Washington, DC and Seattle is a good bit shorter than the distance between Washington, DC and London. In the straightest line possible, the link to London shown on the map would be just around 6,000 kilometers. With c at ~300,000 km/s, (6,000/300,000) = 0.02s = 40ms RTT. The refractive index of an optical fiber at 1550 nm is about 1.5 (if you're feeling optimistic and generous.) (300,000/1.5) = 200,000 km/s. (6,000/200,000) = 0.03s = 60 ms RTT in a generous and optimistic estimation. In the real world, though, all but the most expensive undersea links hover around 75-78 ms RTT, so expecting lower than 90 ms RTT from the server to clients in Europe would likely leave people fairly disappointed.

[SCRIBBLE]

Heh, the distance between Washington, DC and Seattle is a good bit shorter than the distance between Washington, DC and London. In the straightest line possible, the link to London shown on the map would be just around 6,000 kilometers. With c at ~300,000 km/s, (6,000/300,000) = 0.02s = 40ms RTT. The refractive index of an optical fiber at 1550 nm is about 1.5 (if you're feeling optimistic and generous.) (300,000/1.5) = 200,000 km/s. (6,000/200,000) = 0.03s = 60 ms RTT in a generous and optimistic estimation. In the real world, though, all but the most expensive undersea links hover around 75-78 ms RTT, so expecting lower than 90 ms RTT from the server to clients in Europe would likely leave people fairly disappointed.

You forgot to factor in the size of the tubes.

[brett friggin favre]

Heh, the distance between Washington, DC and Seattle is a good bit shorter than the distance between Washington, DC and London. In the straightest line possible, the link to London shown on the map would be just around 6,000 kilometers. With c at ~300,000 km/s, (6,000/300,000) = 0.02s = 40ms RTT. The refractive index of an optical fiber at 1550 nm is about 1.5 (if you're feeling optimistic and generous.) (300,000/1.5) = 200,000 km/s. (6,000/200,000) = 0.03s = 60 ms RTT in a generous and optimistic estimation. In the real world, though, all but the most expensive undersea links hover around 75-78 ms RTT, so expecting lower than 90 ms RTT from the server to clients in Europe would likely leave people fairly disappointed.

Fluffybaby...I love you...but it's a weekend and you just exceeded your MPP (math per post) allowance. This is a very serious offense. Now I'm going to have trouble watching football today because my brain, which was happy in its resting state, is now defunct.

[ZERO]

Actually the new centers are quantumly entangled so to produce no latency...

[Joker]

Sweet go to hear because I live in san Jose and so That's EXTREMELY good news for me.....