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The ping class likely needs to be scrapped to make this any sort of reliable. Making a fake image request to these servers introduces a lot of very random sour
by runin2k1 10y ago
The ping class likely needs to be scrapped to make this any sort of reliable.
Making a fake image request to these servers introduces a lot of very random sources of latency over what a typical ping would involve.
- destitude 10y agoThe other website posted on HN yesterday was much more accurate in that it had very large error circle and I was within the circle. This one tries to be way to specific which you simply can't do with this technique.
- runin2k1 10y agoIt could be "Improved Improved" if they had a central server constantly polling the nodes in exactly the same fashion as this script does. If you know the distance from your central server to the nodes, you can use the rolling response times you're polling for to establish a baseline for the client to help factor out server load.
- sheerun 10y agoCircles don't represent accuracy, just the smallest latency