Well, I ping about 35ms to TX servers, and google maps says it's about 1200 miles to TX from where I live, and since there's ~1600 meters in a mile, that means it's going about 1,920,000 meters in 35/1000's of a second, or ~55,000,000 m/sec. I'd say my connection velocity is pretty good.
Hehe, poor maxter, all this grief because he said "velocity" instead of "speed."