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Yeah, I'm pretty sure they're made up, and they lack context.

40ms for ADSL... From where to where are you pinging?

Gamers will regularly achieve ~20ms pings to other gamers on the same continent. Where as pinging around the other side of world (under-sea cables) is going to add approximately 150-200 ms.

Also FTTH vs. ADSL vs. Cable really shouldn't make much difference with regards to ping (they're all fibre for the majority of the distance). The main reason FTTH (or even FTTN) networks tend to have a quicker ping is because they usually have newer/faster routing hardware running on them.



You should try Australia. Undersea cables definitely adds more than 150-200ms (but I guess you mean the Atlantic) to everything here.


I have tried Australia... it's where I live ;)

~150ms is how much time it takes for my packets to travel the ocean from Australia to USA.

The UK in total is around 350ms (including lots of land routing). That's mostly due to non-optimal routing, it shouldn't be quite that slow.


He _did_ say on the same continent. 150-200ms within Australia would be considered pretty slow.




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