Hi all,
I’m in a unique situation where my landlord can’t log in to his router nor is around/cares to contact the ISP to do so. This is my current setup. Does anyone know how I might go about measuring the latency between the router and my end devices (area shaded in orange)? I’m just curious to see how much my setup is introducing in terms of online games and what not.
And yes, 40 mbps is all we get out in suburban Alaska. Cope with me.
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Just ping it?
Actual traffic might be slightly different, but honestly on a LAN you shouldn’t need to worry about latency. But you’re not going to be able to run iperf3 on that router in any case.
Tracert will give you the latency of each hop required to make it to your destination. Not sure why everyone is complicating it.
If you want to test what your equipment is doing to your latency, connect your pc directly to your landlord’s router, run latency tests multiple times, then set everything up as you normally would and run the same tests again. Some recommended tests for different situations would be fast.com for netflix/video streaming performance, and https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat for bufferbloat. Other things you’ll want to check for gaming performance are double-NAT and ping tests for the online games you tend to play.
You get a whole 40 Mbps?
how long did it take you to upload this image?
About 30 seconds
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Why do you need to connect over your Landlord’s router, for privacy I would recommend using a VPN but I digress.
Anyway, you can just measure your speed/latency to any near server. I would just Ookla’s speed test or any game that has that functionality.
40Mbps is not really much so unless the other devices are using the internet connection constantly you are at no risk. You could also limit other devices speed or set QoS so your PC or console has priority.
This is based on my empirical knowledge, so if anyone can correct me please do so.
Mbps is a measurement for bandwidth not latency. However, it’s a little confusing what OP wants based on the image alone. The question marks in tandem with the bandwidth values makes me assume OP wants to know their outbound bandwidth but they are clearly asking for latency in the post text.
Yes, but isn’t the 40Mbps a bottleneck? If I have 3 devices with Netflix all at 4k (which supposedly uses 25Mbps) while gaming, won’t the latency be affected due to the traffic on the line?.
