No, in less time.
He was out of fuel sooner. The last ping really doesn't define when exactly flight ended, we don't have this data, not yet.
The pings DO set the timeframe, and the point of fuel exhaustion is almost certainly when the partial ping was received AFTER 8:11, as the APU and/or RAT took over electrical generation (causing the satcom to re-set and send a new initial handshake request).
They flew faster for a shorter distance still doesn't pan out.