can make a big difference.
For example, the other day, I saw my ping time go from 2 ms all the way to 4 ms!
(okay, that's just me being facetious, but it's true, and it does matter. I live super close to the big Internet hubs in Ashburn, VA, though. A very large fraction, maybe a third, of the world's internet traffic goes through the datacenters there each day.)