Best way to reduce latency to US website

[adamr]

Need some help please with this topic. If someone on metro fibre metrowork can test their latency from Cape town to a US based website ... Im in JHB and get 247ms to www.nike.com

Also if someone has a VPN can they test latency with and without to a website served form the US ... Maybe same example as above

Next question: is a VPN the best way to reduce my latency to a US based website. How else can I do this

 

[P924]

Best way: Move to the US

 

[adamr]

Best way: Move to the US

Thanks.. I'm booking my flight. This has been awesome advice

 

[Koosie]

Hopefully the new SACS cable will reduce latency to sub 200

 

[RyanPCMR]

I get between 25ms and 28ms using a VPN and without VPN it's between 38 and 54 ms from joburg and using that nike site. Your best bet is to switch to a better ISP.

 

[adamr]

I get between 25ms and 28ms using a VPN and without VPN it's between 38 and 54 ms from joburg and using that nike site. Your best bet is to switch to a better ISP.

Which VPN are you using ?

I'm on fibre metrofibre and the web server sits in the US ... When I ping that site I get 247ms

But your post does help as it does show a VPN improves the latency

 

[RyanPCMR]

Which VPN are you using ?

I'm on fibre metrofibre and the web server sits in the US ... When I ping that site I get 247ms

But your post does help as it does show a VPN improves the latency

I used NordVPN and I'm not even on Fibre but using VDSL from Vox.

 

[adamr]

I used NordVPN and I'm not even on Fibre but using VDSL from Vox.

Appreciate the response. I have been looking at expressVPN and Nordvpn but wasn't sure if the VPN would improve latency and appreciate your post confirming it

 

[Wasabee!]

I get between 25ms and 28ms using a VPN and without VPN it's between 38 and 54 ms from joburg and using that nike site. Your best bet is to switch to a better ISP.

You are not pinging the US, probably a cached CDN server.

 

[Lord Farquart]

Best way: Move to the US

Yup, otherwise be happy with what you get.

 

[RyanPCMR]

You are not pinging the US, probably a cached CDN server.

Most probably yes but that was not my intention. Here is the ping to an actual US address:
(first ping was connected to a US server, second from fastest SA server, last without a VPN)

 

[Johnatan56]

Hopefully the new SACS cable will reduce latency to sub 200

It won't have much of an impact, maybe within the 10ms line. Also depends where in the U.S. the server is located at.


Above is my ping, from CT, fiber, OpenServe.

Adding a VPN won't really change your latency, it will only really do anything if your routing is messed up. Physical distance is still one of the biggest factors.

 

[ThatOtherDude]

Using a VPN cannot improve latency between 2 endpoints.

It degrades it (slightly) due to the additional overhead (encryption & static routing to your choice of VPN enabled server in country X)

The IP for www.nike.com lives on a servef owned by Akamai's Content Distribution Network in Florida.

If Nike bothered to pay for Akamai services in South Africa, then you'd be able to get sub-10ms PING's

Sadly our market is too small & Nike doesn't care (about us).

Your best bet at this stage would be to rather buy Adidas.

 

[adamr]

Using a VPN cannot improve latency between 2 endpoints.

It degrades it (slightly) due to the additional overhead (encryption & static routing to your choice of VPN enabled server in country X)

The IP for www.nike.com lives on a servef owned by Akamai's Content Distribution Network in Florida.

If Nike bothered to pay for Akamai services in South Africa, then you'd be able to get sub-10ms PING's

Sadly our market is too small & Nike doesn't care (about us).

Your best bet at this stage would be to rather buy Adidas.

So true so sad

 

[4ftersh0ck]

I recently signed up for ExpressVPN and I have been using the desktop app for Netflix US and this has been working perfectly.

I finally got router login details from Vodacom (Huawei HG659) and setup an L2TP VPN directly on the router. I have a Samsung Smart TV and I want the US catalogue on there. Unfortunately the quality is so bad, I think I need to contact ExpressVPN to see how to change the DNS entries on the router. My speedtest went from 20mb/s (13ms ping) to around 6mb/s (245ms ping)