Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!phri!roy
From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  World record furthest telnet: Australia -> Sweden
Message-ID: <3832@phri.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jul 89 01:17:45 GMT
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In article <8907010207.aa04823@huey.udel.edu> Mills@UDEL.EDU writes:
> Unless you tinker with the velocity of light, you are you can't wind around
> the world in less than 141 milliseconds

	Depends on whether you constrain yourself to great circle routes or
not.  You should be able to knock the 141 ms down by a factor of pi if you
go the more direct route.  Of course, you might get bogged down in red tape
arranging the right-of-ways. :-)
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