I’m in a unique situation where my landlord can’t log in to his router nor is around/cares to contact the ISP to do so. This is my current setup. Does anyone know how I might go about measuring the latency between the router and my end devices (area shaded in orange)? I’m just curious to see how much my setup is introducing in terms of online games and what not.
And yes, 40 mbps is all we get out in suburban Alaska. Cope with me.
40 Mbps is the amount of data that can be moved in one second; the difference between 20% saturation and 90% saturation should have negligible impact on latency. The bottleneck would occur if you OVERsaturate the line (ie. trying to pull more than 40mbps down) because then the packets would need to take turns coming in and possibly even be re-sent from the source if the latency is so bad that those packets are wiped from cache on routers or switches. (FUN FACT: this is basically how a DDOS attack works, too many packets are being thrown at your network and your router can’t say “no” fast enough to the bad data so latency approaches infinity and the good data ends up getting buried as well)
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40 Mbps is the amount of data that can be moved in one second; the difference between 20% saturation and 90% saturation should have negligible impact on latency. The bottleneck would occur if you OVERsaturate the line (ie. trying to pull more than 40mbps down) because then the packets would need to take turns coming in and possibly even be re-sent from the source if the latency is so bad that those packets are wiped from cache on routers or switches. (FUN FACT: this is basically how a DDOS attack works, too many packets are being thrown at your network and your router can’t say “no” fast enough to the bad data so latency approaches infinity and the good data ends up getting buried as well)
Fast.com (that’s Netflix’s speed test) also tests loaded latency, which is basically what you’re talking about.