That's a fair point, but where I am, I can get 300 Mbps downloads from servers in Paris, and 7ms ping RTT from home (Lille) to those servers. That's an hour by train, so the best part of 180 miles(1), so definitely it gets out onto the backhaul from my exchange.
(1) French high speed trains(2) actually *are* high speed, thanks.
(2) "TGV" is an abbreviation of the French for "high speed train", duh.
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