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xthexder@l.sw0.com 21 hours agoYou’re probably really far away from the VR Chat server. Try pinging Google or Cloudflare, which will tell you ping to the nearest datacenter (a rough estimate of ping caused by your local ISP).
paraphrand@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
It depends on the instance (people can make them in 4 regions of the world) but 90ms is common for US west and east.
Cloudflare.com: 5ms Google.com: 24ms
xthexder@l.sw0.com 20 hours ago
That makes sense then. When people talk about their ISP ping, they’re usually talking about how long it takes to get out of the ISP’s network. So that 5ms Cloudflare ping is likely pretty close to what people would consider your internet’s ping.
Speedtest.net is a really common tool for measuring this, since it will automatically check where the closest server is. For your connection, any ping above 5ms you can probably assume is based on your physical distance to the server, or latency on the server’s end. I’m guessing Google doesn’t have a server quite as close to you as Cloudflare
paraphrand@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Thanks for the details! This makes sense now. I started asking questions because it seemed wild that the only ping I pay attention to, the one shown in a game I play, would be up to 4.5 seconds on starlink. I guess it would be ~250ms.