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Exactly!Exactly!Posted Aug 13, 2009 19:46 UTC (Thu) by hummassa (subscriber, #307)In reply to: Exactly! by khim Parent article: Google releases Neatx NX server
Come, on, you are being thick. 40000km is the CIRCUMFERENCE of the earth, ie, the distance you walk if you wanna make a FULL circunavigation.
The distance between antipodes is half that - 20000km ALONG THE EARTH SURFACE. It would be ~12000km thru the center of the Earth.
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Exactly! Posted Aug 13, 2009 19:58 UTC (Thu) by johill (subscriber, #25196) [Link]
And if your two machines are at antipodes, then your latency is the round trip, which will be ~40Mm.
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