So I live in southern Oklahoma(Atoka, OK), and when I traceroute anything the connections goes to Oklahoma City(two hours north) then to Dallas (two hours south) before going to the server I am trying to connect to. I was just wondering why? It seems to mess with my latency quite a bit having that additional hop to OKC. Wouldn't the optimal path be just to Dallas and then the server I am connecting to? I guess I was just wondering if you could educate me on this process and why it is done this way.
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