I get 8ms even to my WiFi router, how can you have such a low response time? My ...

jsjohnst · on Oct 5, 2020

> I get 8ms even to my WiFi router, how can you have such a low response time?

That’s almost assuredly a sign of radio congestion on the channel you are on causing retransmits. It could also be a poor quality AP or you could have to many clients on your AP, but most likely it’s the first one (in band interference causing lots of retransmits) based on experience.

petercooper · on Oct 6, 2020

Yeah, I don't get it either. Even wired I don't think I've ever seen a ping time of under 10ms to anything on the broader Internet here in the UK and I have both FTTC and cable connections. POPs seem to be weird in the UK generally though, I often get geolocated to somewhere 100+ miles away.

stavros · on Oct 5, 2020

No idea frate, though I use a wired desktop for the test, so wifi latency isn't a consideration.

nottorp · on Oct 5, 2020

I have 10 ms to 1.1.1.1 in RO/RDS on wired. I blame their idiotic pppoe.

spurgu · on Oct 5, 2020

I'm getting single digits from Finland:

    $ ping 1.1.1.1
    PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1): 56 data bytes
    64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=58 time=3.766 ms
    64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=4.120 ms
    64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=4.636 ms
    64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=3.587 ms
    64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=58 time=5.370 ms
    64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=58 time=3.286 ms
    64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=58 time=4.084 ms
    64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=58 time=3.766 ms
    64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=58 time=3.548 ms
    64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=58 time=6.760 ms
    64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=58 time=3.667 ms
    ^C
    --- 1.1.1.1 ping statistics ---
    11 packets transmitted, 11 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
    round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 3.286/4.235/6.760/0.973 ms

And this is on wifi.

heapslip · on Oct 5, 2020

I have ~2.2 ms to 1.1.1.1 on RDS, wired as well. I guess it depends on the area and how lucky you are with the equipment they use.

nottorp · on Oct 5, 2020

Frankly 10 ms is good enough.

a012 · on Oct 5, 2020

It depends on how close CF's edge is to you, a normal traceroute from my home's router is 7 hops, but if I'm on VPN, it's just 2 hops from VPN exit.