What is the worst latency currently suffered on the Internet?

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I&rsquo;m curious: who uses the Internet with the highest real-world minimum latency, where are they, and how are they connected?It looks like most continents with fiber links of some kind have latency to other hosts around the world of less than about 500ms. I imagine remote locations like McMurdo Station served only by satellites have much higher latency. I&rsquo;ve heard of military stations in Alaska served by a chain of terrestrial wireless relays that have terrible latency. I wonder whether that&rsquo;s as bad as it gets, and how bad it really is in day-to-day usage. Mostly I&rsquo;d love to see some actual numbers.Is satellite pretty much the worst? Is there anyone using some kind of maritime VHF link that&rsquo;s even worse?Happy to consider high rate/high latency links as well as low rate links e.g. 9600 or 1200 baud for like remote SCADA where applicable.Who has literally the worst Internet latency?

toast0 · Accepted Answer

Wikipedia says "Bouncing a signal off a geosynchronous satellite takes about a quarter of a second" [1], if you do that both ways, that's half a second round trip. If your peer is also on satellite, there's one second round trip, plus whatever the round trip time is between the two teleports.[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_delay

sacrosanct · Answer

Remote areas like the rural countryside can benefit greatly from novel tech like 5G. Rural areas are notoriously a lot less connected than urban areas, for obvious reasons, and typically rely on a patchwork of repeater routers all coming from a single 3G/4G mobile router, and shared with multiple neighbors.

akasakahakada · Answer

Using amazon.com after download limit without adblock be like 7mins latency. I just ate my meal and wait for images to pop up.