Sounds like someone is trying to improve transaction times on their auction (stock) bots:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_la...apital_markets)
I think all our connections should be throttled to 56.6k. It's classic!
On topic though - I'm east coast and pretty much on the backbone. On wireless I usually see about 40ms in the F11 status thingy, and most of that is my internal disaster-that-works-fine network.
-Mcoy