Re:Of course you know... (Score 1)

A ping of 1 milli-second is ALOT slower than the speed of light , the routing a switching and packet opening and re-encapsulation is your time killer.

Hmm... let's do some math: Say we have 10 000 km from europe to the USA and light travels with about 330 000 km/s ->

10 000 km / 330 000 km/s = 0.030s = 30ms

And that is just one way... take it twice and you have your ping.

Maybe you could make a hole through the earth to shorten the way ;)

Routers etc. should not add much to the latency... maybe 1 or 2ms, not more.

But seriously... it will never happen to do "real realtime" worldwide applications or mega-fast-fat-networks with low latency. It is time to invent "light2" - man, light is so slow :)