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Old 29-08-2008, 17:53   #215
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Re: Virgin Media announces 50mb lines from next year.

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Originally Posted by brummyuk View Post
If what you say is true, then why do some Americans lag on my connection? They have a faster internet than me!
You're not quite understanding, it's nothing to do with bandwidth or how much their connections are capped at. They may have bad routing to you, they could be on the other side of the US or in the backside of nowhere.

I think we're going to struggle here until you get your head around that 'fast' or higher throughput does not mean lower pings. Whether you have 10Mbit or 2000Mbit you cannot change the laws of physics or beat the speed of light. If routes are lossy or elongated high latency / lag happens.
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