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VPN: Shorter ping or fewer hops?
So again, 2 VPS that I am thinking of making one of them a VPN server to watch Hulu.
One has ping of 11ms but has 11 hops from my home connection when I did a traceroute.
The other one has 13-14ms ping but only 9 hops from my home connection.
I am just wondering which one would be a better candidate for my VPN server?
Thanks!
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The 3-4ms rtt difference won't do anything but the 2 hops difference might save you some points of failure so i'd go with the 2nd server
Either, latency wise.
@gsrdgrdghd so basically number of hops is more important than ping. Good to know!
Number of hops doesn't matter. Test for packet loss instead.
Well not for everything, but 2ms difference in ping won't to anything
@rds100: none of them give me any packet loss, but I guess you meant to ping for like 2, 3 hours?
@gsrdgrdghd understood, thanks.
@zhuanyi ping x.x.x.x -s 1472 -c 10000 -i 0 -n
Don't look at the packet loss %, instead look at the number of transmitted and number of received packets (they should be the same).
If you are running a linux box at your home, you can try out mtr. It's great for gathering some statistics.
Set it up, and do a speedtest and check on wich u get the best speed Then choose that VPN :P
BAh, I have >100ms anywhere.
@rds100 so I tried your command and the results looks something like this:
--- xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ping statistics ---
10000 packets transmitted, 6112 received, 38% packet loss, time 140611ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 231.831/1594.541/1821.646/147.922 ms, pipe 131, ipg/ewma 14.062/1709.124 ms
Turns out I did this while my dad was running a stupid Video chat software called QQ to talk to his dad in China...every time he runs it the entire home internet slows down...but I guess to convince to someone who is over 80 years old to use something else other than QQ is pretty tough...
@yomero I'm sorry yomero... some ISP's just seem to not care.
wonder why hulu still doesn't have any love for anyone outside the US
surely their advertisers recognize the money in other parts of the world. Believe I read they made over 100 million a year off ads but this was before hulu+ so probably make lot more now.
@taipres they would have to pursue advertisers in those countries... showing other countries US advertisements is kinda dumb.... the US advertisers probably pay per thousand views or something and don't want people outside the US seeing them as well.
Licensing is a major hurdle. It costs them plenty just to be able to show what they do in the US.
I dunno about that boss. I'm pretty sure hulu's owners have investors/etc from FOX and the big groups.
Francisco
Oh, indeed, but licensing is still a major hurdle to overcome. Hell, look at Zune; there was a massive selection that even a company as big as Microsoft was unable to purchase play rights for.
Isn't only about ISPs
Is about location. I am not in USA
A good location for me is Dallas. I can get even 50 ms. California, Florida, etc are about 90-100. Everything else, has more latency.
And THAT doesn't make difficult to watch netflix or hulu stuff. I don't know why this misconception...
Interesting, tried it just now and still the same outcome:
10000 packets transmitted, 6104 received, 38% packet loss, time 140132ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 357.093/1620.673/1832.732/135.862 ms, pipe 134, ipg/ewma 14.014/1746.738 ms
I know my dad's has done his video chat with his dad for a while now...wondering why ping start to suck so much...
@zhuanyi means that probably your line can't handle so much traffic. What's your internet line? You can try removing the "-i 0" but then it is going to run for 3 hours...