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[KrenianKandos]

East Coaster here that is in Ottawa.

Getting a ping of around 107ms so it's nothing crazy for East Coasters to worry about; as some have mentioned, it's mostly based on your IP that'll determine what kind of ping you'll get.

Funny enough, I enjoy seeing my tracert run from Ottawa, Montreal, New York, St-Louis and then Sacremento. That's quite an interesting zigzag...

[Kosmos992k]

East Coaster here that is in Ottawa.

Getting a ping of around 107ms so it's nothing crazy for East Coasters to worry about; as some have mentioned, it's mostly based on your IP that'll determine what kind of ping you'll get.

Funny enough, I enjoy seeing my tracert run from Ottawa, Montreal, New York, St-Louis and then Sacremento. That's quite an interesting zigzag...

People who get bent out of shape about the straight line distance should look at the straight line distance of those hops. When people complain about the distance to the server they utterly ignore the fact that the actual routing of their packets could be covering anything from 1.5 to 10 times the geographic distance to the host server. Because of that, the number of hops and where the hops are matters far more than the physical distance from their home to the server.

Last thing I'll say since this is getting very fraught...I previously ran a tracert to the old data center on my residential internet and got something like 260ms round trip times. Then I VPN'd into to my corporate network, and via their business class connection using the same damned ISP (business vs consumer!!) I had RTT under 60ms. 200ms difference with the exact same geographic distance. So, geography is not the issue, routing and hops are.