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#280261 4-Dec-2020 17:59

Sometime in November, I noticed a latency increase to Sydney of about 4-6ms.

I recall my latency to 8.8.8.8 was around 25-26ms when I got fibre installed, now it's 30-31ms. At first, I suspected my overall connection may have gained some latency but the jump only happed to that Sydney connection, as my latency to Voyager remains around 5ms:

Anyone else seen this?

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#2616423 4-Dec-2020 18:09

Latency changes often.

I can also see from your Smokeping your latency was ~38ms in September and now it is ~34ms. I would call that a drop. 4-6ms is hardly anything to be worried about and providers have multiple connections overseas - it doesn't all go the same route over the same cable at all times.

Also pings to routers upstream on all providers are best effort - they're busy routing traffic and not focused on replying to pings in an instant.

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#2616490 4-Dec-2020 21:46

question - when the ping shows on Speedtest ... is that one way or round trip? sorry i'm dumb ...

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#2616497 4-Dec-2020 22:18

Batman:

question - when the ping shows on Speedtest ... is that one way or round trip? sorry i'm dumb ...

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#2616500 4-Dec-2020 22:23

michaelmurfy:

Latency changes often.

I can also see from your Smokeping your latency was ~38ms in September and now it is ~34ms. I would call that a drop. 4-6ms is hardly anything to be worried about and providers have multiple connections overseas - it doesn't all go the same route over the same cable at all times.

Also pings to routers upstream on all providers are best effort - they're busy routing traffic and not focused on replying to pings in an instant.

Yeah, I realised that after posting, I think the Smokeping started tracking data after the change hence why I removed the URL in my post.

Also, not really complaining about the latency just more curious who it affects etc, but that is good to know.

The latency seems to correspond to in-game too so it's not just a ping issue afaik.

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#2616507 5-Dec-2020 00:40

Here is what I am seeing at our core network located at a data centre in Auckland:

root@(redacted):~# ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=120 time=26.0 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=120 time=26.0 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=120 time=26.0 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=120 time=26.0 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=5 ttl=120 time=26.0 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=6 ttl=120 time=26.0 ms
^C
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 5006ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 26.026/26.035/26.048/0.007 ms
root@(redacted):~#

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#2616527 5-Dec-2020 06:33

MichaelNZ:

Here is what I am seeing at our core network located at a data centre in Auckland:

64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=120 time=26.0 ms

im seeing the same on voyager in auckland

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#2634608 13-Jan-2021 05:24

Hey Sam!

You're a lot closer to Aussie than me :)

58ms.

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