ICMP echo RTT statistics from Marseille, France to Taipei, Taiwan: average, minimum and maximum latency, jitter, and packet loss in the 2026-08-16 round.

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

Measurement round: 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z.

The Marseille-to-Taipei ICMP echo RTT path averaged 180.9 ms over 50 samples in round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z, with a minimum of 172.41 ms and a maximum of 200.88 ms. No packets were lost, and the 5.8 ms jitter and 6.92 ms standard deviation suggest the path was steady during the sample window.

Both endpoints are significant cable hubs—Marseille on France's Mediterranean coast and Taipei on the East Asia corridor—and the great-circle reference is 10,027.3 km. The measured RTT is 1.84 times the 98.2 ms fiber-floor estimate, so fiber efficiency is 54.3% and the route carries more overhead than its geographic distance alone implies.

Ranked 14th of 19 outbound routes measured in this round, Marseille-Taipei falls in the mid-to-upper latency range and is labeled Fair. The round's median standard-deviation-to-average ratio was 3.28%, and this route's variability is comparable, with zero loss and a maximum spread of about 28.5 ms across the 50 samples.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	180.9 ms
Jitter	5.8 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	98.2 ms
Fiber Efficiency	54.3%
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 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z · avg 180.9 ± 0.98 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (176.0–185.4 ms), median 178.1 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	173.52
2	100	174.12
3	200	173.52
4	300	172.41
5	400	173.97
6	500	175.48
7	600	176.29
8	700	176.29
9	800	176.75
10	900	181.64
11	1000	177.02
12	1100	176.16
13	1200	174.71
14	1300	185.95
15	1400	185.61
16	1500	177.78
17	1600	180.58
18	1700	177.93
19	1800	187.41
20	1900	177.52
21	2000	176.11
22	2100	194.24
23	2200	180.54
24	2300	175.90
25	2400	173.14
26	2500	192.71
27	2600	188.64
28	2700	179.78
29	2800	174.64
30	2900	175.35
31	3000	184.76
32	3100	176.46
33	3200	173.62
34	3300	178.58
35	3400	185.57
36	3500	200.88
37	3600	189.35
38	3700	178.12
39	3800	178.15
40	3900	179.13
41	4000	175.29
42	4100	196.81
43	4200	192.85
44	4300	188.85
45	4400	184.80
46	4500	177.29
47	4600	181.01
48	4700	182.12
49	4800	193.07
50	4900	182.58

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.

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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	1.84×

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 (2026-08-16T04:07:28Z) collected 50 ICMP echo samples on this route. Distribution statistics from that round:

Round Statistic	Value
Minimum RTT	172.41 ms
Average RTT	180.9 ms
Maximum RTT	200.88 ms
Standard deviation	6.92 ms
Stdev / average	3.8%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 180.8 ms
Minimum: 179.4 ms
Maximum: 182.3 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 — 179.5 ms

Fastest routes departing Marseille (MRS)

Marseille to Paris latency and RTT — 8.9 ms
Marseille to Frankfurt latency and RTT — 16 ms
Marseille to London latency and RTT — 18.9 ms
Marseille to Amsterdam latency and RTT — 20.3 ms
Marseille to Berlin latency and RTT — 20.6 ms

Fastest routes arriving at Taipei (TPE)

Hong Kong to Taipei latency and RTT — 14.7 ms
Tokyo to Taipei latency and RTT — 32.3 ms
Singapore to Taipei latency and RTT — 45.8 ms
Seattle to Taipei latency and RTT — 114.7 ms
Sydney to Taipei latency and RTT — 131.7 ms

Same corridor (Europe → Asia Pacific)

Moscow to Hong Kong latency and RTT — 118.6 ms
Moscow to Taipei latency and RTT — 132.1 ms
Marseille to Singapore latency and RTT — 139.6 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 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z, CC BY 4.0".

Data auto-generated on August 16, 2026. Explore the full interactive latency matrix or browse more city-pair routes.

Marseille, France → Taipei, Taiwan RTT