Little help with network latency "research"

squid77

Hi all

Recently I have heard that there is like 14 second latency between South America, Middle East, South East Asia connecting to/from Europe.

I wonder if here are some users from those places (Paraguay, Iraq, Cambodia, etc.) that could post ping output to following server:
ping 193.2.1.72
(It's Arnes DNS server located in Slovenia).

I'm sitting next to it so latency is in ~5ms range.

eol

14s? Never. Maybe if they use smoke sign internet.

FHR

squid77 said:
Recently I have heard that there is like 14 second latency between South America, Middle East, South East Asia connecting to/from Europe.

No. Expect hundreds of milliseconds

FHR

https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/17328924/#!map

Here, ran an Atlas measurement for you.

squid77

Ok, i see. Super cool tool. Thanks for link.

zkyez

UAE latency to Eastern Europe is around 140ms.

ValiSXP

Hi

Check Atlas database from RIPE(https://atlas.ripe.net/probes/).

eol

Maximum latency I get from EU is Australia (Perth), like 340ms.
https://asm.ca.com/en/ping.php

rm_

You should be disqualified from working on networks if you think there'd be a 14 second latency from anywhere to anywhere.

Tucker

I've seen nothing of the sorts from my monitoring nodes in those areas

Do you have a specific source AS, common transit provider or even a subsea path that this is being observed on?

+1 for RIPE Atlas, it is your friend. I'll be glad to run some tests or PM me your RIPE email and ill send you a few thousand credits

zkyez

@rm_ said:
You should be disqualified from working on networks if you think there'd be a 14 second latency from anywhere to anywhere.

The latency to the probes close to the edge of our solar system is significantly higher than 14 seconds

deank

14s of lag..., rolf. Such lag would only happen to a spacecraft that's in between Earth to Mars.

rm_

zkyez said: The latency to the probes close to the edge of our solar system is significantly higher than 14 seconds

Sure, but there isn't a device out there plugged into the public Internet that you would be able to ping to or from.

imok

squid77 said: 14 second latency

Check the test ip from https://mzunguhosting.ml

FHR

@rm_ said:
Sure, but there isn't a device out there plugged into the public Internet that you would be able to ping to or from.

Or at least one would hope there isn't.

dragon2611

@rm_ said:
You should be disqualified from working on networks if you think there'd be a 14 second latency from anywhere to anywhere.

I've seen it on congested cellular networks, I guess they're messing with the traffic as usually it would have timed out long before that.

feezioxiii

This tool will come in handy: https://cdnperf.com/tools/cdn-latency-benchmark

SplitIce

If (${latency being complained about} > 1s)
   if(rand()%3 == 0) broken customer network
   if(rand()%3 == 1) broken customer brain
   if(rand()%3 == 2) customer is alien

Janevski

ALL SYSTEMS NOMINAL

squid77

Tucker, only info I have is "from what I have heard". No tech data, sorry.

The latency, allegedly, happend to someone, connecting remotely to Iraq, into some VM (or HW server) sitting in manufacturing plant there.

So latency should be "calculated" from my PC all the way down to some manufacturing plants' 192.168.0.0 internal network.

Also I have heard that internet in Paraguay is, pardon my french, shit-ti (internet goes down for 10 minutes, then it comes up...). This "internet" is the one for home users, that might not be located in or near city center.

I still wonder if village-to-village (lets say no more then 500 inhabitants) between SA and EU is really so low on latency.

And yes, I get it that 14s latency is not acceptable or would offer normal/decent use of net these days.

BlaZe

@imok said:

squid77 said: 14 second latency

Check the test ip from https://mzunguhosting.ml

Network is fast my man!

FHR

squid77 said: And yes, I get it that 14s latency is not acceptable or would offer normal/decent use of net these days.

Even VSAT, generally regarded as one of the slowest methods of internet connection offers latencies in the neighborhood of 600ms

deank

666ms is the best lag there is, bar none.

CyberMonday

The lag is neigh.

Janevski

@deank said:
666ms is the best lag there is, bar none.

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