said by einsteinjr :The latency is a little disappointing on your speed tests. 50 physical miles away and still 33ms pings? What are your pings to say google.com?
I think people overstate the importance of DL/UL speeds and understate ping times. CenturyLink should be doing a better job with peering to make their routes not go through so many hops/distance.
Latency for CenturyLink is varied due to the limited nature of qwest and centurylink/centurytel peering points. Kansas City's routes all traverse from KC to Dallas and out to the desired server. Back when CenturyLink was Sprint/Embarq, routing in KC was via SprintLink from KC->CHI, KC->DAL, etc. When SprintLink was dropped, and routes were moved over to Level3, (which i was fairly impressed with once they fixed up the Level3 route issues) - the routes and peering was EVERYWHERE, KC->Denver, Chicago, Tulsa, St. Louis, just to name a few. It was nice.
Regardless, ping should not be relied upon at all due to how this is currently setup with the CLink network. While your location may be close to a speedtest.net server, it doesn't mean you'll get good speeds or low latency to it.
