10-13-2020, 01:23 PM
It seems that choosing the right ISP may be an important factor regarding total latency. I haven't figured out how to determine this yet. This PCMag ISP latency comparison article be helpful: https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-best-gami...s-for-2020. Also, from StuartR's recommendation, here is a Test My Latency page: https://testmy.net/latency?testALL=1.
However, to StuartR's point, most latency tests use ping, which sends/receives packets via ICMP, whereas I believe Jamkazam uses UDP/IP (true?), so pings results may be misleading. There are ping-like programs that measure latency at the UDP layer, such as hping, but I haven't tried one yet.
I thought I saw somewhere that Jamkazam used to have a test server you could use to find out if your network path was causing poor latency or jitter, but that they took it offline.
I would think the true test would be to send a UDP ping to whatever Jamkazam server(s) does the actual work, and finding an IP address for that was the main point of my query.
However, to StuartR's point, most latency tests use ping, which sends/receives packets via ICMP, whereas I believe Jamkazam uses UDP/IP (true?), so pings results may be misleading. There are ping-like programs that measure latency at the UDP layer, such as hping, but I haven't tried one yet.
I thought I saw somewhere that Jamkazam used to have a test server you could use to find out if your network path was causing poor latency or jitter, but that they took it offline.
I would think the true test would be to send a UDP ping to whatever Jamkazam server(s) does the actual work, and finding an IP address for that was the main point of my query.