[Sublime]

So basically, there is a server which is somewhere really far from me. Is it possible for it to not loop through countries to reach my place and go off the sea (which is near to me)? Or is it just the same distance? Either I suck at Geography or there aren't any fibre wires placed out in the ocean.

[FaceTutorialz]

Fiber wires MIGHT be placed in certain areas to boost up speed, it might try to find the closest way to get to the U.S. without having to suffer from high ping. However, if it has to take the long road, you will most likely have to suffer the consequences. Honestly, you will have a 75% chance of having high ping.

To make things easier, tell me what internet connection you have and what it is (satellite, DSL, ADSL, Broadband, 3g/4g, fiber optics, ect.)

[Sinner]

The short answer: no, you don't have control over this.

The long answer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routing_table
What that basically means is that the "internet" automatically chooses the best (not always the fastest) route for your request based on a multitude of things. Routers continuously exchange information about paths to and from other routers with eachother making sure that your packets always arrive at the server, and preferably as fast as possible.

[Sublime]

@FaceTutorialz, idk wireless.

@Sinner, Well..

[linuxthefish]

Depends where it's going to, you can normally see a rough route with tracert and guess the server location through the hostname. Don't rely on geoip.

Manchester > Canada.

Tracing route to gateway2.thestar.ca [192.206.151.131]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 10 ms 2 ms 2 ms private
2 11 ms 6 ms 6 ms private
3 13 ms 16 ms 19 ms private
4 16 ms 15 ms 15 ms private
5 176 ms 11 ms 11 ms te-9-1-0.core-dc1.man4.uk.m247.com [77.243.176.73]
6 22 ms 18 ms 20 ms te-1-5-3346.bb1.ams1.nl.m247.com [77.243.185.178]
7 25 ms 19 ms 25 ms ams-sara-cor-1.peer1.net [195.69.145.209]
8 26 ms 28 ms 25 ms 10ge.xe-1-0-0.frk-eqx-cor-1.peer1.net [216.187.88.198]
9 41 ms 34 ms 33 ms 10ge.xe-1-1-0.ldn-eqx-cor-1.peer1.net [216.187.88.197]
10 35 ms 33 ms 34 ms xe-4-4.r00.londen03.uk.ce.gin.ntt.net [83.231.181.206]
11 36 ms 34 ms 32 ms 10ge.xe-4-0-0.ldn-teleh-dis-1.peer1.net [216.187.115.203]
12 122 ms 162 ms 153 ms 10ge.xe-1-1-0.nyc-telx-dis-1.peer1.net [216.187.115.117]
13 128 ms 125 ms 127 ms 10ge.xe-11-0-0.tor-fr709-cor-1.peer1.net [216.187.114.193]
14 128 ms 132 ms 126 ms 10ge.xe-5-0-0.tor-fr709-dis-1.peer1.net [216.187.113.133]
15 144 ms 132 ms 175 ms 10ge.xe-1-1-0.tor-1yg-dis-1.peer1.net [216.187.113.78]
16 64.34.137.58 reports: Destination net unreachable.

[FaceTutorialz]

For wireless, you may be able to stand a good connection, but you will reach spikes that may cause problems for the server your choosing. However, the IP's will depend on the connection, basically as linuxthefish said. It's really not choiceable to choose which direction your connection is going.

[linuxthefish]

Also yes, it's possible.