There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

Re:There's no reason for software to be slow anymore by inigyou on Saturday August 22, 2026 @08:52AM (#49399231)

To dogfood this, rent a VPS in Australia and put a test environment there. Should be about 200ms ping or a bit higher. How it runs for you is how Australian users are seeing your site, even if their last mile connection is fiber.

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Re:There's no reason for software to be slow anymore by mjmas on Saturday August 22, 2026 @05:05PM (#49403879)

Example pings from here in Australia (FTTP)

  PING news.ycombinator.com (209.216.230.207): 56 data bytes
  ...
  --- news.ycombinator.com ping statistics ---
  40 packets transmitted, 40 packets received, 0% packet loss
  round-trip min/avg/max = 154.980/155.832/156.990 ms

FTTP except via WiFi:

  round-trip min/avg/max = 164.218/164.860/165.764 ms

Or through the mobile network:

  rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 201.881/245.543/350.600/48.713 ms

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