Ping faster than light

I just discovered very strange thing while testing my internet connection. My ping is smaller than it should be. For example ping time to Arizona State University is about 14ms. eryk@eryk-pc:~$ ping www.asu.edu PING www.asu.edu.cdn.cloudflare.net (104.16.51.14) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 104.16.51.14: icmp_seq=1 ttl=60 time=13.8 ms I’m living in Poznań in Poland so … Read more

Transatlantic ping faster than sending a pixel to the screen?

John Carmack tweeted, I can send an IP packet to Europe faster than I can send a pixel to the screen. How f’d up is that? And if this weren’t John Carmack, I’d file it under “the interwebs being silly”. But this is John Carmack. How can this be true? To avoid discussions about what … Read more