Melbourne to Miami ping and RTT: 201 ms, 4.42 ms jitter, 152.69 ms fiber floor, and 76% efficiency across AS203314. Updated 2026-08-09.

🇦🇺 This page compares the published ping and round-trip time (RTT) from Melbourne (MEL) to 🇺🇸 Miami (MIA) with vacuum and optical-fiber physical limits.

As of August 9, 2026, the Melbourne → Miami route on Hats Network averages 201 ms RTT across a 50-sample daily ICMP echo measurement round (source: GSL), 1.32× the theoretical fiber-floor limit of 152.69 ms.

Among the 19 measured routes departing Melbourne, this route ranks 9th fastest by average RTT.

With a stdev-to-average ratio of 3.2%, this route sits close to the network-wide stability median of 3.4%. Across the round, per-probe RTT ranged from 193.54 ms to 225.23 ms with a standard deviation of 6.44 ms.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	201 ms
Jitter	4.42 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	152.69 ms
Fiber Efficiency	76%
Latency Tier	Fair
Source Region	Asia Pacific
Destination Region	North America

Ping Measurement Series

The chart below renders the 50-sample ICMP echo measurement round for this route; an accessible table of every sample is included with the chart.

Ping series: MEL → MIA

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-09 · avg 201.0 ± 0.91 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (196.2–204.1 ms), median 200.7 ms · whiskers = min–max · diamond = round average · each dot is one measured sample.

How to read this chart

The shaded band spans the measured minimum to maximum RTT of all samples collected up to that point, and the thin line traces the running average. The final position therefore matches the round statistics exactly — the band only widens when a new extreme sample arrives.

The dashed line is the round average, and the shaded band at the bottom is the theoretical fiber-optic floor (152.7 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	200.60
2	100	225.23
3	200	204.14
4	300	201.76
5	400	223.75
6	500	205.52
7	600	199.74
8	700	204.24
9	800	208.89
10	900	200.82
11	1000	205.44
12	1100	203.61
13	1200	200.24
14	1300	202.29
15	1400	199.90
16	1500	203.48
17	1600	196.39
18	1700	193.93
19	1800	194.37
20	1900	195.16
21	2000	193.55
22	2100	193.88
23	2200	201.03
24	2300	205.77
25	2400	202.28
26	2500	196.26
27	2600	198.10
28	2700	201.07
29	2800	199.40
30	2900	197.87
31	3000	202.23
32	3100	204.86
33	3200	204.10
34	3300	205.98
35	3400	207.96
36	3500	202.80
37	3600	196.24
38	3700	195.66
39	3800	194.87
40	3900	194.35
41	4000	195.37
42	4100	196.75
43	4200	194.42
44	4300	193.54
45	4400	196.17
46	4500	196.56
47	4600	195.91
48	4700	201.14
49	4800	206.33
50	4900	206.05

Download This Route's Data

This route's measurement round is published as open data (CC BY 4.0) in CSV, JSON, and YAML. See About This Measurement for citation guidance.

Download this dataset

Per-route ICMP ping series, released under CC BY 4.0. Uncompressed plain text — no decompression step needed.

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Theoretical Fiber Latency

The public physical reference uses the GeoNames city centres for Melbourne (-37.81400, 144.96332) and Miami (25.77427, -80.19366). It does not disclose either facility address.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	15,591.9 km
Vacuum RTT floor	104.02 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	152.69 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	152.07 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	160.34 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	203.07 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	3274.3 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	205 / 204
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.32×

Attenuation is used to estimate the number of 80 km optical spans; it does not directly slow light. See the full theoretical fiber latency, GeoNames, attenuation, and amplifier methodology.

Stability & Trend

The current measurement round (2026-08-09) collected 50 ICMP echo samples on this route. Distribution statistics from that round:

Round Statistic	Value
Minimum RTT	193.54 ms
Average RTT	201 ms
Maximum RTT	225.23 ms
Standard deviation	6.44 ms
Stdev / average	3.2%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 200.9 ms
Minimum: 199.0 ms
Maximum: 203.0 ms
Average loss: 0.02%

Route Context

Departure PoP: Melbourne (MEL)
Destination PoP: Miami (MIA)
Region overview: Asia Pacific → North America
Full global matrix: Backbone Latency Matrix
Physical methodology: Theoretical Fiber Latency

Reverse direction

Miami to Melbourne latency and RTT — 201.7 ms

Fastest routes departing Melbourne (MEL)

Melbourne to Sydney latency and RTT — 9.8 ms
Melbourne to Singapore latency and RTT — 88.6 ms
Melbourne to Tokyo latency and RTT — 111.3 ms
Melbourne to Hong Kong latency and RTT — 126.1 ms
Melbourne to Taipei latency and RTT — 141.3 ms

Fastest routes arriving at Miami (MIA)

Ashburn to Miami latency and RTT — 27.9 ms
New York to Miami latency and RTT — 33.2 ms
Los Angeles to Miami latency and RTT — 57.5 ms
São Paulo to Miami latency and RTT — 74 ms
Seattle to Miami latency and RTT — 81.8 ms

Same corridor (Asia Pacific → North America)

Tokyo to Seattle latency and RTT — 85.1 ms
Tokyo to Los Angeles latency and RTT — 101.3 ms
Taipei to Seattle latency and RTT — 117 ms

About This Measurement

Published RTT reflects best-case backbone path behavior measured with ICMP echo probes between PoPs. End-user latency also depends on local access networks, congestion, routing policy, and traffic engineering. None of these values is an SLA.

The measurement round behind this page is published as open data under CC BY 4.0 in the Hats Network latency dataset. Per-pair files are available at /opendata/latency/latest/pairs/mel-mia.pings.{csv,json,yaml}. When citing, include the route, the measurement round date, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, Melbourne → Miami round 2026-08-09, CC BY 4.0".

Data auto-generated on August 9, 2026. Explore the full interactive latency matrix or browse more city-pair routes.

Melbourne to Miami Latency, Ping & RTT | AS203314