said by 53059959:no...? from the usa its a good 300ms away, thats just due to the raw speed of light limitation.
100mbps is great but all your content will be in chinese. if you try to download something from the usa it will crawl at 6mbps.
Equatorial Circumference of Earth: 40,075.02 km
Maximum possible distance to travel between two points on Earth (using most direct path): 40,075.02 km / 2 = 20,037.52 km.
Velocity of light in a vacuum: 3.00 * 10^8 m/s
Time for light to travel half way around the world:
Disatnce / Velocity = (2.00 * 10^4) / (3.00 * 10^8) = (6.667 * 10 ^ -5) = 0.067 ms
Therefore USA to Hong Kong, if points were positioned exactly half-way around the globe, the maximum time it would take (through "raw speed of light limitation") would be 0.067 ms...*not* 300ms.
Yes, there would be a greater lag than 0.067ms; however this is not due to the speed of light. Much of the lag would be accumulated within servers, switches and relays; also, signals traveling through copper travel substantially slower than the speed of light. Therefore, if any part of the journey were made on a non-fiber connection, this could help accumulate more lag.
Anyway, the "raw speed of light" limitation would only cause a lag of 0.067 ms. Light travels really quickly. Think a little harder the next time you want to dis' the blazingly fast speed of light.