xthexder comments on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 point 1 year ago* (3 children)

You're probably really far away from the VR Chat server. Try pinging Google or Cloudflare, which will tell you ping to the nearest datacenter (a rough estimate of ping caused by your local ISP).

Based on their numbers, you could probably expect 50-100ms to Google, and then add an extra 90ms to get from there to your VR Chat server.

My personal fiber connection gets under 2ms ping on Speedtest

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

It depends on the instance (people can make them in 4 regions of the world) but 90ms is common for US west and east, for me.

Cloudflare.com: 5ms
Google.com: 24ms

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[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

That makes sense then. When people talk about their ISP ping, they're usually talking about how long it takes to get out of the ISP's network. So that 5ms Cloudflare ping is likely pretty close to what people would consider your internet's ping.

Speedtest.net is a really common tool for measuring this, since it will automatically check where the closest server is. For your connection, any ping above 5ms you can probably assume is based on your physical distance to the server, or latency on the server's end. I'm guessing Google doesn't have a server quite as close to you as Cloudflare

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago*

Thanks for the details! This makes sense now. I started asking questions because it seemed wild that the only ping I pay attention to, the one shown in a game I play, would be up to 4.5 seconds on starlink. I guess it would be ~250ms at the top of the range they quoted.

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