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sidd_p · 2019-04-19 17:38:46+00:00

Less than 5s across all 240K+ global servers

mr_toad | karma 5817 | avg karma 1.71 · | 2019-05-16 22:41:45

> server on the other side of the world, but with no other latency accounted for - is about 200ms

In practice, it’s a lot worse than 200ms. 500-700ms are typical for servers on the other side of the planet.

GekkePrutser | karma 10335 | avg karma 2.08 · | 2022-01-28 13:36:34

This is actually really much lower than I expected..

Though what helps is that most servers have a dedicated iLO interface and you really have to choose to configure it on the regular ones along with normal traffic. So out of band is default.

So in this case it's only people who have deliberately configured this. I think this is why it's not hundreds of thousands.

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Retric | karma 55819 | avg karma 2.05 · | 2019-08-04 13:03:32+00:00

Globally you only get ~100 strikes per second, which means any location is going to be much lower than that.

cs02rm0 | karma 2056 | avg karma 2.75 · | 2017-01-13 16:34:53+00:00

I'm getting <1ms from a server in Amsterdam, some hundreds (3-5) of ms from the UK, with some even timing out.

dncornholio | karma 783 | avg karma 0.96 · | 2023-06-29 02:46:36

Funny, I can pinpoint players location based on their pings pretty accurately too. 300ms + is Asia, 350+ is Australia, Americans are 120+, South America 170+.

Ping towards USA has lowered the most. This used to be 225ms in the earlier online days.

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preinheimer | karma 2154 | avg karma 5.93 · | 2022-11-20 13:50:11

Global Ping Data - https://wondernetwork.com/pings

We've got servers in 200+ cities around the world, and ask them to ping each other every hour. Currently it takes our servers in Tokyo and London about 226ms to ping each other.

We've got some downloadable datasets here if you want to play with them: https://wonderproxy.com/blog/a-day-in-the-life-of-the-intern...

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aphextron | karma 13989 | avg karma 5.79 · | 2019-03-23 16:35:57

I’m showing a consistent ~150ms to all nearby servers right now on T-mobile.

Either way, it’s more than 10x difference. 50ms vs 5ms is the difference between being able to game and not.

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julien_c | karma 1950 | avg karma 4.96 · | 2013-07-25 17:38:23+00:00

Sounds a bit high as well. I'm pinging London-based servers from my OVH servers in less than 25ms

drzel | karma 191 | avg karma 2.98 · | 2020-04-05 16:45:21+00:00

Our nightly games are played on local servers with 13ms pings, but we still have international matches played on midpoint servers, with most players pinging between 150-200ms. Holds up very well.

rtomayko | karma 1022 | avg karma 13.81 · | 2011-02-22 20:26:47

Can you dump some ping times? 2-4s is waaaay outside of what I'd expect the average response time to be.

genewitch | karma 1385 | avg karma 1.0 · | 2024-04-25 21:19:22

i had both 768kb and 384kb sdsl in los angeles, and we had 4ms ping to most servers, we got accused of being bots so much. 4.2.0.0/16 ;-)

sshb | karma 197 | avg karma 2.77 · | 2021-03-02 20:54:54+00:00

Well, you are still getting less server load and faster response times across the globe, right?

treis | karma 8962 | avg karma 2.72 · | 2019-04-19 10:14:43

NYC to Sydney is still only ~200 ms. That's probably in the realm of being noticeable but only barely. Even then, the real need is more like one server per continent rather than every cell tower.

Handytinge | karma 108 | avg karma 0.23 · | 2022-07-16 01:21:56

I doubt that. Talking to servers in Australia takes me 1-40ms.

Of course, I am in Australia.

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witty_username | karma 987 | avg karma 1.08 · | 2014-07-20 15:32:06+00:00

I just want to note that the servers have a ping of ~150 here from India, which is not that fast, but OK. Hopefully some DNS servers will be placed in Asia.

franga2000 | karma 4899 | avg karma 2.85 · | 2018-04-02 10:58:03+00:00

Holy shit! Ping from a server in Germany: 8.8.8.8: 6.4 ms 1.1.1.1: 0.45 ms That's really impressive! Well done!

pfg | karma 5329 | avg karma 4.49 · | 2015-08-04 10:24:42

That's weird, I'm getting 2-3s with an empty cache, and a bit shy of 1s with a primed cache. Pingdom reports 3.41s from San Jose, California (I'm in Central Europe).

firmnoodle | karma 81 | avg karma 2.53 · | 2020-07-15 00:14:28+00:00

but how were those pings to game servers in North America? I'm guessing they take too long no matter the bandwidth to the local exchange.

agumonkey | karma 29727 | avg karma 1.44 · | 2018-04-01 13:38:48+00:00

EU, but my network setup is shitty as one can be:

    --- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
    23 packets transmitted, 20 received, 13% packet loss, time 22093ms
    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 37.756/51.634/75.856/12.714 ms

    --- 1.1.1.1 ping statistics ---
    7 packets transmitted, 7 received, 0% packet loss, time 6007ms
    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 38.920/43.627/52.355/4.547 ms

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