- elmicker
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Yeah, once you reach about 8mb, it's all about your location, but more importantly it's about your location on the world wide web. I'll use the uni of teesside servers as an example (they run the #7 most popular CS:S server on the planet). I'm in Newcastle, and the servers in teesside are 40 miles down the road. Because they're run by a northern university, it's on a network called "NORMAN", the NORthern area Metropilitan Network. This is a 1 gigabit network and is connected to another network called "JANET", the Joint Academic NETwork, this has varying speeds, up to 8 gigabit. The only problem is that it only connects to other networks in London, so my data has to go to central newcastle, down Telewest's main backbone to London, where it switches to JANET, goes back up to central Newcastle, where it switches to NORMAN and goes to middlesbrough and the uni of teesside. On average this takes a mere 45ms. However, a friend of mine 2 miles down the road at Newcastle Uni gets a ping of 6ms because he is already on NORMAN, so he is essentially connected directly to the server, it might as well be a 30 mile long ethernet cable.