On Jun 8, 2017, at 12:22 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <harr...@me.com <mailto:harr...@me.com>> wrote:
> I’ve been using PIA for about a month now. One thing I have noticed is that > locations outside the U.S. have much faster speeds than the U.S. At least > that’s what I assume. For instance, If I connect via Singapore the app says > 252ms (which I think is a speed indication). If I connect to Switzerland I > get 133ms. But connections within the U.S. range from 105ms in Seattle to > 40ms in Florida. > > Can anyone explain what’s happening here. And am I correct in assuming the ms > ratings are speed? That’s a ping time. Ping is an old network diagnostic tool that sends a special packet to a target and then waits for an acknowledgement. The round-trip time is given in milliseconds. (The name comes from thinking of it as sonar on a submarine.) It’s one of the commands available in Network Utility. You can also do it yourself pretty easily in the terminal with the ping command: Aragorn:~ leelarson$ ping www.apple.com <http://www.apple.com/> PING e6858.dsce9.akamaiedge.net <http://e6858.dsce9.akamaiedge.net/> (23.63.208.82): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 23.63.208.82: icmp_seq=0 ttl=55 time=34.448 ms 64 bytes from 23.63.208.82: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=31.225 ms 64 bytes from 23.63.208.82: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=32.057 ms 64 bytes from 23.63.208.82: icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=32.617 ms 64 bytes from 23.63.208.82: icmp_seq=4 ttl=55 time=31.382 ms ^C --- e6858.dsce9.akamaiedge.net <http://e6858.dsce9.akamaiedge.net/> ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 31.225/32.346/34.448/1.163 ms L^2 --- Lee Larson leelar...@me.com <mailto:leelar...@me.com> They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days. — Garrison Keillor,
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