said by jstack 
:said by PolarBear :The pings can NEVER get better. 22,000 miles will never be any less than 22,000 miles.
It's a lot more than that if you think about it. It's 22,300 miles up, another 22,300 down, then it gets routed to the website on ground, and then finally, it goes back up and down to you. It totals about 90,000 miles.
Newer satellites have routing built in. They can actually beam it to a closer downlink and uplink center to try and lessen lag. I have heard they are dropping the latency by as much as 200 ms. Which is a nice drop for satellite.
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