I've seen Is SPDY any different than http multiplexing over keep alive connections and Difference between HTTP pipeling and HTTP multiplexing with SPDY but also http://www.guypo.com/technical/not-as-spdy-as-you-thought/.
I've even noticed that both are just a few ms more than ping in my own experience.
Am I missing something? I used this to install http://www.howtoforge.com/using-mod_spdy-with-apache2-on-ubuntu-12.10. Is there a setting I missed?