Marseille, France to Taipei, Taiwan ICMP RTT measurement: average RTT, jitter, packet loss, and route statistics for round 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z

🇫🇷 Marseille, France (MRS) → 🇹🇼 Taipei, Taiwan (TPE)

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

In round 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z, the Marseille-to-Taipei ICMP RTT run used 50 echo requests at 100 ms intervals and recorded an average of 178.7 ms, a minimum of 172.22 ms and a maximum of 192.66 ms. The standard deviation of 4.51 ms and jitter of 4.69 ms indicate a fairly consistent path, and with zero packet loss the route was placed in the Fair latency tier.

The geodesic distance of 10,027.3 km yields a two-way vacuum floor of 66.9 ms and a fiber floor of 98.2 ms. An average RTT of 178.7 ms is 1.82 times the fiber floor, or 54.9% fiber efficiency, so the route carries noticeably more overhead than a direct physical path would suggest.

Among the 19 Marseille-originating routes in the round, this path ranked 14th, and the median standard-deviation-to-average ratio across the measured set was 3.08 percent. The larger overhead relative to the fiber floor is the defining characteristic here; loss and jitter are both small.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	178.7 ms
Jitter	4.69 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	98.2 ms
Fiber Efficiency	54.9%
Latency Tier	Fair
Source Region	Europe
Destination Region	Asia Pacific

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: MRS → TPE

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z · avg 178.7 ± 0.64 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (175.1–181.1 ms), median 177.3 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 (98.2 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	172.22
2	100	175.77
3	200	172.98
4	300	180.21
5	400	186.13
6	500	180.52
7	600	174.81
8	700	173.93
9	800	173.52
10	900	174.26
11	1000	175.02
12	1100	174.06
13	1200	184.01
14	1300	177.09
15	1400	174.89
16	1500	176.57
17	1600	182.94
18	1700	177.10
19	1800	187.96
20	1900	186.06
21	2000	180.09
22	2100	174.49
23	2200	173.69
24	2300	187.23
25	2400	180.95
26	2500	176.67
27	2600	173.11
28	2700	181.20
29	2800	180.46
30	2900	182.29
31	3000	178.66
32	3100	178.04
33	3200	184.80
34	3300	175.98
35	3400	175.40
36	3500	179.71
37	3600	177.04
38	3700	176.70
39	3800	174.68
40	3900	177.54
41	4000	183.77
42	4100	180.42
43	4200	177.89
44	4300	180.74
45	4400	176.44
46	4500	181.88
47	4600	175.19
48	4700	192.66
49	4800	182.06
50	4900	175.17

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 Marseille (43.29695, 5.38107) and Taipei (25.05306, 121.52639). It does not disclose either facility address.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	10,027.3 km
Vacuum RTT floor	66.9 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	98.2 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	97.8 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	103.12 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	130.6 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	2105.7 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	132 / 131
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.82×

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	172.22 ms
Average RTT	178.7 ms
Maximum RTT	192.66 ms
Standard deviation	4.51 ms
Stdev / average	2.5%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 178.9 ms
Minimum: 177.0 ms
Maximum: 180.4 ms
Average loss: 0.01%

Route Context

Departure PoP: Marseille (MRS)
Destination PoP: Taipei (TPE)
Region overview: Europe → Asia Pacific
Corridor overview: Europe to Asia Pacific
Full global matrix: Backbone Latency Matrix
Physical methodology: Theoretical Fiber Latency

Reverse direction

Taipei to Marseille latency and RTT — 179.9 ms

Fastest routes departing Marseille (MRS)

Marseille to Paris latency and RTT — 8.9 ms
Marseille to Frankfurt latency and RTT — 17.5 ms
Marseille to Amsterdam latency and RTT — 19.6 ms
Marseille to Berlin latency and RTT — 21.5 ms
Marseille to London latency and RTT — 24.5 ms

Fastest routes arriving at Taipei (TPE)

Hong Kong to Taipei latency and RTT — 15.2 ms
Tokyo to Taipei latency and RTT — 32.1 ms
Singapore to Taipei latency and RTT — 44.3 ms
Seattle to Taipei latency and RTT — 115.1 ms
Moscow to Taipei latency and RTT — 130.9 ms

Same corridor (Europe → Asia Pacific)

Moscow to Hong Kong latency and RTT — 118.5 ms
Marseille to Singapore latency and RTT — 138.5 ms
Berlin to Hong Kong latency and RTT — 143.9 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/mrs-tpe.pings.{csv,json,yaml}. When citing, include the route, the measurement round timestamp, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, Marseille → Taipei 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.

Marseille, France → Taipei, Taiwan RTT