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You do seem to know a lot about this topic, but I don't think you should draw any conclusions based on speculation.


There is no "speculation" here:

When you measure latency, you always have to be careful about clock issues at the point where you measure the start and the point where you measure the end. This is old-hat for sysadmins and others who deal with these types of issues. This is why round-trip latency numbers are easier to work with: both the start and the end times are taken on the same clock.

It's clear, given nanex's responses, that they depended on someone else to give the timestamps. Before concluding that someone had inside information ahead of time, they should check their processes. It's like someone claiming they built a perpetual energy machine because they confused power with energy (i want to say it was paul newman but the name escapes me -- this actually happened)




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