Quote Originally Posted by Sweepslag View Post
"Locally, if you are on a Telkom fibre line, there is going to be latency to get to the exchange and from the exchange to the ISP that may not be there on another provider.”

Oh really? So other ISP's have found a way to transmit data with no latency? Someone needs to call Einstein and tell him how wrong he was about the speed of light.
I'm assuming it's because they're seeing everything as <1 ms

The time delay of light in a distance fiber can easily be approximated. Since light travels down light in approximately a straight line we can use the formula (D = T * V) where D is the distance the fiber travels, T is the time it takes to travel, and V is the velocity of light. The speed of light inside fiber is close to 2*10^8 m/s. So for example the time delay of light traveling down 2 kilometers (2,000 meters) of fiber will be close to 10 (10*10^-6 seconds).

Which is why I prefer using microseconds for reporting on fiber latency. It's still fun when you go 9μs and people go damn that's slow. When it's 0.009 ms or <1ms if you're using standard ping commands