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20ms baseline latency is pathetic. Ping from a data center in Los Angeles to one in San Francisco is typically a little over half what it apparently takes your
by api 11y ago
20ms baseline latency is pathetic. Ping from a data center in Los Angeles to one in San Francisco is typically a little over half what it apparently takes your modem to send a packet upstream. 20ms is like half way across the country. Why is latency at the last mile so awful?
What is the latency typically like on stuff like Google Fiber?
- pixl97 11y agoThe DOCSIS 3.0 modems we use at our local provider have no where near that much latency. 5-8ms is typical.
- scandinavian 11y agoBaseline on my DOCSIS 3.0 modem is as low as 5 ms when I've tested it. That anyone should care about a 5-ish ms overhead is ridiculous imo.
- edude03 11y agoIt's great when it's that low, my problem with DOCSIS is that it's not consistent. When there is low utilization in your neighbourhood it's fine but when everyone is home for the holidays for example it becomes unbearable. For example, I usually get about 8ms to a server hosted in the same city as me (10ms to google) but on bad days it gets as high as 60-80ms. I regularly tether my LTE enabled phone where I get around 20ms but it's consistent.
- xorcist 11y agoOn my completely regular residental broadband, built with standard ethernet almost fifteen years ago, I have 4 ms to my server in the cloud (same country, different provider). If Google Fiber is built with similar parts it should be comparable.
- toupeira 11y agoAm on gigabit fiber here, next hop is <1ms as it should be.