here are just as many of the GP who don't have a clue what a mega-byte is !!.
I'm trying not to take any sides, but I think you are correct in that the GP will more likely understand the fact that they can reach the other side of the work in 235ms or whatever. People like my parents have no concept of Mbps, yet if I told dad his Skype session with his sister could reach Aus in 235ms, then he would understand that.
IMHO its quite a good way of explaining how good
the Internet is, and I cant see that the figures are exaggerated. Still not sure about using it specifically for 'Superfast' though.
The point which I failed to get over (in a rush before you took the site down) was that I believe Connecting Cumbria have no business to be quoting one set of ping times for three different exchanges.
In your rush did you upload a wrong image, because I think both are exactly the same and why I wondered if I'd missed something.
Latency wont vary much anyhow between many exchanges which are in the same general area. My latency is basically the same here as a friend who lives on the other side of Fylde cost and about 6 exchanges away. It will make a difference though if you were comparing say an exchange in Aberdeen, to one near London docklands where most of the Telehouses are.
Note on my tracert to smh.com.au how I was easily able to assume that their server is in one of the Telehouses: Thats because Plusnet's transit link is @
ptw-cr02 meaning
Telehouse
West and yet from ptw its taking <1ms to reach their server.
If you can get from Manchester to London in about 8ms on the core, then a very rough approx is 1ms per 25 miles. Using transatlantic cabling which is one long line rather than bouncing around lots of routers youre looking at 3500/66 = 53miles per millisecond from London to NYC. Therefore anyone in the same general area wont see any difference in latency.. which is more likely affected by (ISP) routing and congestion. If push came to shove then Workington may probably get say 1ms more latency than Kendal.
I dont expect people to fully understand latency, but most people can easily understand that something they say or type on the internet can reach someone on the other side of the globe in 235ms or 0.2 seconds
