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Tools to compare ping times between ISPs to common services (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by derprondo@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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I'll consider myself one lucky SOB with major first world problems in that I currently have in my home two fiber providers and must choose to keep only one. One is AT&T, the other a much smaller municipal broadband style company.

I want to compare latency between the two services. I noticed that when I swapped the connections, that the municipal fiber had considerably higher latency to the services I was already monitoring (ie 9ms vs 30ms to 1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8, and google.com. Screenshot

I was wondering if there's a simple tool anyone knows about to compare ping times to a wide range of common services? Currently I just have InfluxDB and a Telegraph script pinging the sites previously mentioned, with Grafana displaying the metrics. I could just manually add other services to this setup, but was wondering if anyone knows about a purpose built tool for this with a big list of services built in? It would be awesome if I could just spin up a container that did all of this, and if something doesn't exist like this already maybe I'll just create it and base it on the same Influx+Telegraph+Grafana solution I'm using now.

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[–] keivmoc@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

For example, on AT&T fiber I get 11ms to Blizzard's east coast servers, but on my other fiber connection it's 77ms.

Ah, interesting. We switched transit providers a year ago and noticed a big improvement in routing efficiency. Small providers are usually at the mercy of their upstream peers unless they can build their own backbone links to an IX.