That is not true
If you live in, let\'s just by pure chance say Hungary  your little messages will have to travel all the way to Singapore.
That is a looong way, which wouldn\'t be that bad, but you will have to go through more routers, networks, gateways etc, than if you\'d live close.
This means that when you press your left key on your keyboard, the packet that it provokes takes \"relativ\" long time to get to Singapore.
But because of the distance, the jitter (the difference between the packet delays) can also be big, and that means you can\'t precisely predict the delay and use the info.