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Gonna have to downvote this for a few reasons:
- Latency is only relevant to the specific endpoint you’re connected to at any given time.
- Latency doesn’t matter overall if you’re just measuring a ping. It’s a simple network transaction, and high ping here and there will not be apparent on things like streaming video from a service or whatever.
- Jitter is the thing that needs to be measured to be useful, and it will only become apparent when you notice a problem in low-latency applications like voice/video comms, or gaming.
Ya.
The only times I am really using
pingare when I am expecting some bad connection problem.Like disconnection, altogether.
Sometimes ping won’t even help notice that though, I’ve had instances where I was trying to diagnose why a home network connection kept freezing, and when running ping, it would freeze but then continue after 10 seconds, without erroring out or giving the normal ‘destination host not found’ error, or having really high millisecond response time, etc. I finally had to start running it with timestamps so I could see when the connection was choking, and not updating the ping for 10 seconds at a time.
