So whats the best theoretical practical achievable ping for gaming between continents

[0roo0roo]

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[imagoon]

You questions is incredibly vague and has so many variables that...

California to France: 30.53ms
Maine to France: 18.11ms

Is about the best and likely most inaccurate guess I could make.

 

[Fardringle]

Utah (me) to www.google.fr (Google's servers in France): average 70ms

 

[itsmydamnation]

0.7C x distance x2. very theoretical there.

 

[deimos3428]

Cali-France-Cali in 60ms is theoretically possible, but still not bloody likely. 100ms is a more reasonable target.

 

[spidey07]

0.7C x distance x2. very theoretical there.

Yes, not counting switching/routing latency or serialization delay.

 

[itsmydamnation]

Yes, not counting switching/routing latency or serialization delay.

yeah, so long as your traffic doesn't taken a stupid path ( quite likely thax to BGP depending on the destination AS). But really serialization on 1G/10G links in line rate forwarding devices really does add that much latency. in my little test once accounting for the first hop latency (DSL) from my house (Australia) to boarder routers of my ISP on the US west coast the latency is very close to 0.7C x round trip distance.

 

[spidey07]

yeah, so long as your traffic doesn't taken a stupid path ( quite likely thax to BGP depending on the destination AS). But really serialization on 1G/10G links in line rate forwarding devices really does add that much latency. in my little test once accounting for the first hop latency (DSL) from my house (Australia) to boarder routers of my ISP on the US west coast the latency is very close to 0.7C x round trip distance.

you are indeed correct. Serialization delay on high speed links adds very little, but it does add. And with most all routing done in hardware we're talking microseconds at most. But it does add. Then buffering, again milliseconds at most, but it does add.

The biggest contributor to the path will be the speed of light through the medium. Provided no queueing, and there WILL be queueing.

 

[seepy83]

I'd just like to point out the topic..."theoretical practical achievable"...it could be argued that all three of those are different.

 

[0roo0roo]

I'd just like to point out the topic..."theoretical practical achievable"...it could be argued that all three of those are different.

haha ok fine, best real world ping for normal customer...

 

[nusyo]

i used to play on cstrike european servers (with friends) and I never had pings lower than 190ms .... so real world gaming ping would be between 190-300 based on my experience.

as a note: i had comcast as my ISP