Is the RTT/Latency Acceptable on the Last Visible Destination?
In principal. RTT values of less than 150 ms from your home to the final destination should not impact Internet applications. Many applications work just fine with latency even higher than that, but for sites that are US-based they should fall below 150 ms and usually are < 100 ms. Latency over an uncongested network is primarily dependent on the physical fiber distance between the source (your PC) and the destination (e.g. server). If the source and destination are thousands of miles apart, average latency values of 100-120 ms are acceptable as communication is limited by the speed of light over the entire physical fiber distance. Example: Hop 16 Hop 16 is the last visible hop in the sample shown previously. The roundtrip times for Hop 16 are acceptable because the round trip times are within expected ranges. 16 85 ms 86 ms 84 ms mdf001c7613r03-gig-10-1.lax1.example.com [10.10.193.242] Do You Notice High Latency on Middle Hops, But Not at the Last Visible Destination? Traceroute resul
