mmv wrote:Appreciate everyone sending in the pings! So far it seems like there is not much difference. However, no one with "high end" fiber has posted as of yet. The main reason I am concerned is I connect to US servers a fair amount of the time. I was trying to get that number ~150ms if possible...
I had heard that "My Republic's Gamer Plan" apparently has separate routing. I just do not want to pay an extra $30 a month for something that make no difference on speed to international locations.
I think it will be impossible to get under 200ms to the US. My company has a huge amount of bandwidth and the best routing possible to the west coast of the US, but we do 175-180ms (see below).
I like to ping level3's DNS root in San Jose. You'll be hard pressed to find a better connected host with a fixed location (not GLSB) and an easy to remember IP:
--- 4.2.2.2 ping statistics ---
52 packets transmitted, 52 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 172.497/187.530/210.375/8.904 ms
So about ~180ms across the ocean. Give or take a few %.
You can even see here the two hops along the route before and after they hit the undersea cable:
ge-0-1-7-0.sngtp-dr2.ix.singtel.com (203.208.151.181) 1.770 ms
so-4-2-2-0.toknf-cr3.ix.singtel.com (203.208.173.106) 184.779 ms
MyRepublic has phenomenal customer service that's practically un-heard of here in Singapore, let alone Asia. I'm sure they would either run the tests you're asking us about and provide the honest results, or let you cancel the gamer plan if you're not happy with it. I also don't think it's separate routing, but just QoS.
