Re: [tlug] Is Japan closer to U.S. or ...?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Jim Breen writes:
 > On 22 December 2014 at 19:17, Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com> wrote:
 > 
 > > RTT to the Singtel IX is about 70 ms. over NTT, which is what most
 > > providers are using for transit to Singapore. US west coast tends to be
 > > around 100 ms. more, so Singapore is probably the better option.
 > 
 > And which applications running over TCP do you think perform
 > perceptively better with a 30ms shorter RTT?

tcptraceroute, for one.

ROTFLMAO

Sorry, it's been a long and less than amusing day....

More seriously, Curt claimed a 100ms *difference*.  Ie, a RTT of
170ms, which is approaching jnd for Olympic athletes, and 2RTs would
be 340ms, which an ordinary human would notice.  IIRC TLS connections
involve a pile of synchronous round trips, so anything that makes a
lot of TLS connections would probably benefit from quicker response.