Latency ping

I have ping 230-350 ms from Honolulu (Hawaii) to Belgrade, Serbia.

I know everyone will say that is law of physic. I just need to understand it. (I got fiber connection on both end) no converter. Fiber goes straight to the Cisco Router on both ends.

When you measure the distance (Google Earth) its about 7,872 miles.

Ok cables does not go straight so lets add * 3 (23,616 miles).

Speed of light is 186,282 miles per second / 1,000 to get ms = 186.2 miles per one millisecond.

Ok cool.

23,616 / 186.2 = 126.9 ms ping what it should be.

So I guess rest is conversion from optical to electrical signal + routing right?

I think there is a lot of room for improvement!

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What do you think? Am I wrong?

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test@test-MBP ~ % ping 188.255.*.*

PING 188.255.154.122 (188.255.154.122): 56 data bytes

64 bytes from 188.255.154.122: icmp_seq=0 ttl=234 time=224.665 ms

64 bytes from 188.255.154.122: icmp_seq=1 ttl=234 time=270.751 ms

64 bytes from 188.255.154.122: icmp_seq=2 ttl=234 time=223.309 ms

64 bytes from 188.255.154.122: icmp_seq=3 ttl=234 time=224.096 ms

64 bytes from 188.255.154.122: icmp_seq=4 ttl=234 time=221.511 ms

64 bytes from 188.255.154.122: icmp_seq=5 ttl=234 time=222.050 ms

64 bytes from 188.255.154.122: icmp_seq=6 ttl=234 time=270.253 ms

64 bytes from 188.255.154.122: icmp_seq=7 ttl=234 time=286.366 ms

64 bytes from 188.255.154.122: icmp_seq=8 ttl=234 time=309.731 ms

64 bytes from 188.255.154.122: icmp_seq=9 ttl=234 time=226.658 ms

64 bytes from 188.255.154.122: icmp_seq=10 ttl=234 time=250.175 ms

64 bytes from 188.255.154.122: icmp_seq=11 ttl=234 time=224.126 ms

64 bytes from 188.255.154.122: icmp_seq=12 ttl=234 time=222.667 ms

64 bytes from 188.255.154.122: icmp_seq=13 ttl=234 time=319.989 ms

64 bytes from 188.255.154.122: icmp_seq=14 ttl=234 time=217.955 ms

64 bytes from 188.255.154.122: icmp_seq=15 ttl=234 time=260.950 ms

64 bytes from 188.255.154.122: icmp_seq=16 ttl=234 time=280.100 ms

64 bytes from 188.255.154.122: icmp_seq=17 ttl=234 time=219.313 ms

64 bytes from 188.255.154.122: icmp_seq=18 ttl=234 time=318.195 ms

64 bytes from 188.255.154.122: icmp_seq=19 ttl=234 time=336.962 ms

64 bytes from 188.255.154.122: icmp_seq=20 ttl=234 time=256.706 ms

^C

--- 188.255.*.* ping statistics ---

21 packets transmitted, 21 packets received, 0.0% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 217.955/256.501/336.962/38.156 ms