The baton will then make its journey from Delhi - which was the host of the 2010 Games - along a route detailed in the map above.

BBC: Scotland

Even with his wimpy DSL connection, pages are rendered quickly enough once the website's servers (and all the other computers along the route, plus those used to host adverts, graphics and miscellaneous layout bits) start giving his browser's request some attention.

ECONOMIST: The faster the internet becomes, the slower it loads pages