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Satellital ones more than others because of the time the signal takes to travel all the way up and down (~35.786KM from the planet's surface to the satellite, measured from a place on earth over the equatorial line. Will be more as you move further from the equator.).

Now, knowing that the speed of the signal is C (speed of light on the vacuum, 299.792 Km/s), we can determine the minimum delay between you and the sat:

35.786 km / 299.792 km/s = 0.119s

That would be the time the signal takes to reach the sat, at the best possible conditions.
Multiply by a factor of 2 to know the time it takes to travel forth and back:

0.119s x 2 = 0.238s

That is the time it takes to go from you to the sat and to the next earth based relay. That must be multiplied by 2 again, because when the server replies, the signal goes all the way to the sat and back to you, so:

0.238s x 2 = 0.476s

That is almost half a second just to pass through the sat. You need to add to that the time it takes the sat to process the signal, lets say 0.032s ( in fact, 0.064, because it will go through the sat two times, although this value is a bit exaggerated).

0.476s + 0.064s = 0.54s

And to that we add it thew time it takes to the signal to travel back and forth once its on the land (from the sat relay station on the other side of the sat), through the land network. And we add the dioscovery server load, usually around 74ms (0.074s).

So, 0.54s + 0.074s + 0.100s (average time on land) = 0.714s. That would be a ping of 714ms. Give or take 100-200ms, as the average time on land, plus the server load and the sat processing time are very estimative. So it should be between 500ms and 1000ms+ depending on the day..

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