Network latency to our three data centers, measured

Typical round trip in milliseconds: the median of each probe’s average ping. The fastest site for each city is in bold. Measured September 30, 2026.

* Winnipeg (6 probes) and Calgary (8) had fewer probes, so treat those rows as rougher.

The short version: Ashburn wins the East Coast and Europe, Chicago wins the middle of the country and Canada, and Los Angeles wins the West Coast. Chicago is never far from anywhere in the US, which is why it’s the safe default.

Same method, measured October 1, 2026. Los Angeles is the fastest of our sites for almost every Asia-Pacific city, typically 30 to 45 ms quicker than Chicago and 40 to 70 ms quicker than Ashburn. Jakarta is the exception, where Los Angeles and Ashburn come out even.

Bangkok varies more than most because some Thai networks take a long path to Los Angeles.

Between our data centers. Over the circuits that link our sites, Chicago to Ashburn is about 24 ms, Chicago to Los Angeles about 40 ms and Ashburn to Los Angeles about 52 ms. Those are point-to-point circuit figures, not the path your customers’ traffic takes, but they’re what a primary in one site and a replica in another will see.

Method. RIPE Atlas is a public network of measurement probes that people host on their own internet connections. For each city we took up to 15 probes on different local ISPs, had each one ping our three sites three times, and reported the median of the per-probe averages. Probes were grouped to the nearest city within 150 km.

Raw data. North America and Europe: Chicago 217363593, Ashburn 217363611, Los Angeles 217363605. Asia-Pacific: Chicago 217804757, Ashburn 217804822, Los Angeles 217804829.

Want the story behind the numbers? Read Ashburn vs Chicago, Chicago vs Los Angeles and Ashburn vs Los Angeles.