It’s a great big planet and we are connecting from all corners of it.
Sure we can go to a speed test site and check our bandwidth against a server that’s usually less than 50 miles away depending how rural you are.
Now if you’re in China or Brazil or even just over the pond in the UK connecting to the US things may be different.
We have 5 servers for our online play (so we can see each other) but that does not seem to be where we are drawing photogrammarty, I believe that is only held in one location and is ruining it for many people.