First, as I'm sure you know, RTT dominates when it's high enough...and our metrics show it being quite high on these links. For the first few seconds (which is what we care about), you won't get full use of the link's available bandwidth.
Also, data freshness is a challenge here. Some of our internal data sources show median RTTs north of 400ms in the markets growing fastest.
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...but it isn't clear how much to believe any of them. No source has a full picture. The best we can say is that some services with high traffic are able to characterize their usage well in some markets.
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...but this has also been sensitive to hysteresis effects: services that drop weight often gain users on slower links.
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