10-13-2020, 09:29 PM
(10-13-2020, 01:23 PM)Nate Stelton Wrote: 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.
Pinging Jamkazam servers be it ICMP or per a UDP ping of any kind is not going to give you any valuable information at all. The actual jamming is done via a P2P connection between the session peers. Your audio (video) never touches the Jamkazam server(s) during a session.
if the ping time is of major importance to you, finding out your session peers IP-address(es) and pinging that would make a lot more sense. But, wouldn't it be much easier to just get online and try a jam, see what's what and take it from there ... .
