Subscription Response time is slow

I am testing Ring Central API to determine if it is a good fit for our company.

I am getting around 6 second second response times for subscription notifications in the development environment. Is this normal? Or is it because I am located in Australia?

I am listening for: /restapi/v1.0/account/~/presence

When I change my status, or start a call using the RC Phone app, it takes about 6 seconds before the event is triggered. I have tried using PubNub and WebHooks and get the same result. The code that I have is just subscribing to the event, then logging to console when triggered. I am using this API for nodejs: require('@ringcentral/subscriptions').Subscriptions