[bigiain]

Pretty sure that google time for Sydney is an outlier

This is from my residential ADSL2 connection in Sydney:

  [Bigs-MacBook-Pro-2:~] bigiain% ping 8.8.8.8
  PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=59 time=21.257 ms
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=59 time=25.831 ms
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=59 time=22.231 ms
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=59 time=21.498 ms
  ^C
  --- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
  4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
  round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 21.257/22.704/25.831/1.841 ms
  [Bigs-MacBook-Pro-2:~] bigiain% ping 1.1.1.1
  PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1): 56 data bytes
  64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=59 time=22.481 ms
  64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=59 time=38.814 ms
  64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=59 time=19.923 ms
  64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=59 time=19.911 ms
  ^C
  --- 1.1.1.1 ping statistics ---
  4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
  round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 19.911/25.282/38.814/7.882 ms

And this is from an ec2 instance is ap-southeast-2:

  ubuntu@ip-172-31-xx-xx:~$ ping 8.8.8.8
  PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=2.24 ms
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=2.27 ms
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=2.30 ms
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=55 time=2.26 ms
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=5 ttl=55 time=2.31 ms
  64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=6 ttl=55 time=2.25 ms
  ^C
  --- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
  6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 5007ms
  rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2.244/2.274/2.310/0.066 ms
  ubuntu@ip-172-31-xx-xx:~$ ping 1.1.1.1
  PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
  64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=1.03 ms
  64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=1.05 ms
  64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=1.05 ms
  64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=55 time=1.01 ms
  64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=55 time=1.07 ms
  ^C
  --- 1.1.1.1 ping statistics ---
  5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4004ms
  rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.015/1.046/1.076/0.035 ms