Fiber ISP with sub-200ms EU latency ? (Openserve)

[KinsZA]

Hi

With different ISP's using different backbones / routes depending on your location its easily possible to have a higher latency between one ISP and the next. It would be interesting to know what ISP's can give you the lowest for your location.
I am using https://www.azurespeed.com/Azure/Latency for my locations and checking europe for lowest then US.

ISP: CFiber (Openserve)
Location: Durban

UK: 188ms average (UK South) - London
US: 275ms average (East US) - Virginia

Hoping to find who has a super low one for the price.

 

[S.Claus]

PTA Openserve 200/100 Cool Ideas

 

[PBCool]

Hi

With different ISP's using different backbones / routes depending on your location its easily possible to have a higher latency between one ISP and the next. It would be interesting to know what ISP's can give you the lowest for your location.
I am using https://www.azurespeed.com/Azure/Latency for my locations and checking europe for lowest then US.

ISP: CFiber (Openserve)
Location: Durban

UK: 188ms average (UK South) - London
US: 275ms average (East US) - Virginia

Hoping to find who has a super low one for the price.

I think for KZN your best latency is over Seacom via Mtunzini, other than that the lowest latency to London is via WACS. which is ~140ms in Cape Town and ~155/160 Johannesburg. Most ISPs route KZN via JHB, so add ~10ms for KZN customers to JHB latency.

 

[cavedog]

I think for KZN your best latency is over Seacom via Mtunzini, other than that the lowest latency to London is via WACS. which is ~140ms in Cape Town and ~155/160 Johannesburg. Most ISPs route KZN via JHB, so add ~10ms for KZN customers to JHB latency.

Why though? I see most route via JHB but when you use Cloudflare Warp VPN for example the ISPs peer with Cloudflare in Durban and then Cloudflare takes the traffic from Durban over Seacom to international.

 

[cavedog]

Hi

With different ISP's using different backbones / routes depending on your location its easily possible to have a higher latency between one ISP and the next. It would be interesting to know what ISP's can give you the lowest for your location.
I am using https://www.azurespeed.com/Azure/Latency for my locations and checking europe for lowest then US.

ISP: CFiber (Openserve)
Location: Durban

UK: 188ms average (UK South) - London
US: 275ms average (East US) - Virginia

Hoping to find who has a super low one for the price.

This is what I get on Afrihost in Centurion

 

[PBCool]

Why though? I see most route via JHB but when you use Cloudflare Warp VPN for example the ISPs peer with Cloudflare in Durban and then Cloudflare takes the traffic from Durban over Seacom to international.

If you are a transit customer of Seacom and pick them up in KZN then great, like CloudFlare it seems. But realistically KZN is a "small" market so to get dedicated layer2 capacity via Seacom to London or via transit etc generally doesn't make sense for a minor latency improvement.

 

[BigBear]

ISP: Axxess 8/5 Uncapped (Openserve)
Location: Pretoria

 

[cavedog]

If you are a transit customer of Seacom and pick them up in KZN then great, like CloudFlare it seems. But realistically KZN is a "small" market so to get dedicated layer2 capacity via Seacom to London or via transit etc generally doesn't make sense for a minor latency improvement.

Cloudflare got some cash to spend I guess. When cables were down my cousin got lower latency on Telkom LTE in KZN through Cloudflare than I could get in Centurion on fibre be it direct or via Cloudflare.

Works well if you are in KZN actually. Seacom transit. I wonder why CF chose Seacom. Personally not a fan of them after their peering policy changed and they upped their transit prices when wacs and sat3 was down. Very unethical.

 

[KinsZA]

I know using cloudflare warp VPN my Path of exile latency drops from like 240ms to 188ms. Was hoping there was a ISP where it would naturally be like that.

Guess I'll just have to wait for a desktop client that supports Warp+

 

[CrypticZA]

I know using cloudflare warp VPN my Path of exile latency drops from like 240ms to 188ms. Was hoping there was a ISP where it would naturally be like that.

Guess I'll just have to wait for a desktop client that supports Warp+

Are you using wireguard? (for warp)

 

[KinsZA]

Are you using wireguard? (for warp)

I had been using a tunsafe guide I saw somewhere to just performance test it, have not gone the wireguard route yet as figured I'd wait and see how things go.