- milliseconds
Latency
Latency is:
- (...) the amount of time it takes for data to travel from one point to another across a network (...) - IBM
- (...) a synonym for delay (...) - TechTarget
- normally measured with ping
- normally in the range 5-50 milliseconds (your latency is undetermined)
Obviously, the latency should be as low as possible.
Improve your latency is often hard
Usually there is little you can do to improve latency.
You can investigate whether your home network is slowing you down by taking a ping measurement to google.com from a computer connected directly to your router via an Ethernet cable. If you have much less latency than usual, then your home network is the bottleneck.
Disclaimer
When using this tool, you should know that:
- Latency at a Glance requires a modern browser with JavaScript enabled
- The first result may yield too high a value. Click on the Retest button for a more reliable measurement
- The latency between your device and the Google cloud is "measured"
- Latency at a Glance is calibrated based on the standard Windows ping to google.com
Other tools
Latency is best measured with a standard Windows ping to google.com. In addition to Latency at a Glance, there are more online tools to determine latency. Below are some online ping tools.
View this list at ZOMDir.com