In today's rapidly expanding digital landscape, where access to timely online content is paramount to users, the underlying network infrastructure and latency performance significantly influence the user experience. We present an empirical study of the current Internet's connectivity and the achievable latencies to propose better routing paths if available. Understanding the severity of the non-optimal internet topology with RIPE Atlas stats, we conduct practical experiments to demonstrate that local traffic from the San Diego area to the University of California, San Diego reaches up to Los Angeles before serving responses. We examine the traceroutes and build an experimental overlay network to constrain the San Diego traffic within the city to get better round-trip time latencies.

翻译：在当前快速扩张的数字环境中，及时获取在线内容对用户至关重要，底层网络基础设施和延迟性能显著影响着用户体验。我们通过对当前互联网连接性及可实现延迟的实证研究，提出在存在更优路由路径时进行改进的可能性。基于RIPE Atlas统计数据对非最优互联网拓扑严重性的理解，我们开展实际实验，证明从圣地亚哥地区到加州大学圣地亚哥分校的本地流量需经洛杉矶中转后才会返回响应。通过分析路由追踪结果，我们构建了实验性覆盖网络，将圣地亚哥流量限制在城区范围内，以获得更优的往返时间延迟。