ICMP round-trip time measurements between Melbourne, Australia and New York, USA, with latency, jitter, and packet loss analysis from 50 samples.

🇦🇺 Melbourne, Australia (MEL) → 🇺🇸 New York, USA (NYC)

Measurement round: 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z.

For the Melbourne-to-New York path, the 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z measurement run collected 50 ICMP echo requests at 100 ms intervals and returned an average round-trip time of 205.3 ms, with a minimum of 195.08 ms, a maximum of 234.92 ms, and no packet loss.

The observed average is 1.26 times the practical fiber floor of 163.27 ms for the 16,672 km geodesic distance, putting fiber efficiency at 79.5 percent. With jitter at 7.23 ms and a standard deviation of 9.25 ms, the route was stable enough to be described as a Fair latency tier despite the long intercontinental crossing.

Within a reference set of 19 comparable route measurements, this route ranked 9th, while the median standard-deviation-to-average ratio across that set was 3.08 percent. Those figures place the Melbourne-to-New York result near the middle of its route group, and the zero packet loss makes this a dependable ICMP round-trip measurement for the pair.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	205.3 ms
Jitter	7.23 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	163.27 ms
Fiber Efficiency	79.5%
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 → NYC

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z · avg 205.3 ± 1.31 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (198.2–208.2 ms), median 202.4 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 (163.3 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	196.93
2	100	195.08
3	200	207.00
4	300	208.07
5	400	201.03
6	500	196.76
7	600	198.16
8	700	205.61
9	800	211.66
10	900	204.27
11	1000	232.99
12	1100	211.35
13	1200	201.54
14	1300	197.96
15	1400	195.60
16	1500	200.06
17	1600	203.02
18	1700	197.74
19	1800	199.60
20	1900	221.04
21	2000	208.23
22	2100	202.37
23	2200	198.39
24	2300	198.06
25	2400	202.90
26	2500	210.58
27	2600	202.31
28	2700	200.92
29	2800	206.07
30	2900	198.33
31	3000	196.96
32	3100	197.52
33	3200	202.34
34	3300	222.64
35	3400	221.06
36	3500	206.46
37	3600	210.19
38	3700	223.62
39	3800	215.97
40	3900	234.92
41	4000	212.14
42	4100	201.83
43	4200	201.03
44	4300	205.33
45	4400	204.04
46	4500	200.99
47	4600	196.97
48	4700	196.94
49	4800	203.14
50	4900	197.28

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 New York City (40.71427, -74.00597). It does not disclose either facility address.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	16,672 km
Vacuum RTT floor	111.22 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	163.27 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	162.61 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	171.45 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	217.14 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	3501.1 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	219 / 218
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.26×

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 (2026-08-15T04:03:13Z) collected 50 ICMP echo samples on this route. Distribution statistics from that round:

Round Statistic	Value
Minimum RTT	195.08 ms
Average RTT	205.3 ms
Maximum RTT	234.92 ms
Standard deviation	9.25 ms
Stdev / average	4.5%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 205.4 ms
Minimum: 203.2 ms
Maximum: 207.1 ms
Average loss: 0.02%

Route Context

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

Reverse direction

New York to Melbourne latency and RTT — 205.9 ms

Fastest routes departing Melbourne (MEL)

Melbourne to Sydney latency and RTT — 9.8 ms
Melbourne to Singapore latency and RTT — 88.3 ms
Melbourne to Tokyo latency and RTT — 113.2 ms
Melbourne to Hong Kong latency and RTT — 137.4 ms
Melbourne to Taipei latency and RTT — 141.7 ms

Fastest routes arriving at New York (NYC)

Ashburn to New York latency and RTT — 6 ms
Miami to New York latency and RTT — 34 ms
Los Angeles to New York latency and RTT — 59 ms
Seattle to New York latency and RTT — 59 ms
London to New York latency and RTT — 63.5 ms

Same corridor (Asia Pacific → North America)

Tokyo to Seattle latency and RTT — 84.6 ms
Tokyo to Los Angeles latency and RTT — 101.5 ms
Taipei to Seattle latency and RTT — 115.7 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-nyc.pings.{csv,json,yaml}. When citing, include the route, the measurement round timestamp, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, Melbourne → New York round 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z, CC BY 4.0".

Data auto-generated on August 15, 2026. Explore the full interactive latency matrix or browse more city-pair routes.

Melbourne, Australia → New York, USA RTT