See New York, USA to Ashburn, USA ICMP RTT metrics: 6 ms average, 0.30 ms standard deviation, 0% packet loss, jitter 0.26 ms, with latency context.

🇺🇸 New York, USA (NYC) → 🇺🇸 Ashburn, USA (IAD)

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

During the 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z round, ICMP echo RTT from New York, USA to Ashburn, USA averaged 6 ms, with a 5.58 ms minimum, 7.18 ms maximum, 0.30 ms standard deviation, and 0.26 ms jitter. None of the 50 packets were lost.

For the 350.8 km between the two cities, the vacuum floor is 2.34 ms and the straight-line fiber floor is 3.44 ms, so the observed 6 ms average is 1.75 times the fiber floor, or 57.3% fiber efficiency. The absolute latency remains ultra-low, but the inflation illustrates the practical difference between great-circle distance and a real route linking two dense interconnection hubs.

This route ranked first among the round's 19 outbound routes. Its 0.30 ms standard deviation is 5.0% of the 6 ms average, higher than the 3.28% median variability, but the variation is still less than one-third of a millisecond. The combination of 6 ms RTT, 0.26 ms jitter, and zero packet loss makes this a useful local performance reference for East Coast interconnection.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	6 ms
Jitter	0.26 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	3.44 ms
Fiber Efficiency	57.3%
Latency Tier	Ultra-Low
Source Region	North America
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: NYC → IAD

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z · avg 6.0 ± 0.04 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (5.8–6.1 ms), median 6.0 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 (3.4 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	5.58
2	100	5.74
3	200	5.69
4	300	5.90
5	400	5.99
6	500	5.87
7	600	5.80
8	700	5.70
9	800	5.65
10	900	6.65
11	1000	6.06
12	1100	5.76
13	1200	5.96
14	1300	5.91
15	1400	5.73
16	1500	5.89
17	1600	6.37
18	1700	6.03
19	1800	5.97
20	1900	5.75
21	2000	5.88
22	2100	6.16
23	2200	5.89
24	2300	6.00
25	2400	5.86
26	2500	5.75
27	2600	6.03
28	2700	6.57
29	2800	6.54
30	2900	5.97
31	3000	6.25
32	3100	6.39
33	3200	6.16
34	3300	6.04
35	3400	6.04
36	3500	7.18
37	3600	6.18
38	3700	5.80
39	3800	5.69
40	3900	5.77
41	4000	6.14
42	4100	5.96
43	4200	6.03
44	4300	5.83
45	4400	5.98
46	4500	6.44
47	4600	5.96
48	4700	5.76
49	4800	5.94
50	4900	5.81

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 New York City (40.71427, -74.00597) and Ashburn (39.04372, -77.48749). It does not disclose either facility address.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	350.8 km
Vacuum RTT floor	2.34 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	3.44 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	3.42 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	3.61 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	4.57 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	73.7 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	5 / 4
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.75×

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	5.58 ms
Average RTT	6 ms
Maximum RTT	7.18 ms
Standard deviation	0.3 ms
Stdev / average	5.0%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 6.0 ms
Minimum: 5.9 ms
Maximum: 6.0 ms
Average loss: 0.03%

Route Context

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

Reverse direction

Ashburn to New York latency and RTT — 6 ms

Fastest routes departing New York (NYC)

New York to Miami latency and RTT — 32.9 ms
New York to Seattle latency and RTT — 58.7 ms
New York to Los Angeles latency and RTT — 58.9 ms
New York to London latency and RTT — 63.5 ms
New York to Amsterdam latency and RTT — 68.7 ms

Fastest routes arriving at Ashburn (IAD)

Miami to Ashburn latency and RTT — 27.3 ms
Los Angeles to Ashburn latency and RTT — 60.4 ms
Seattle to Ashburn latency and RTT — 61.5 ms
London to Ashburn latency and RTT — 71 ms
Paris to Ashburn latency and RTT — 75.5 ms

Same corridor (North America → North America)

Seattle to Los Angeles latency and RTT — 25.9 ms
Los Angeles to Seattle latency and RTT — 26.9 ms
Ashburn to Miami latency and RTT — 27.4 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/nyc-iad.pings.{csv,json,yaml}. When citing, include the route, the measurement round timestamp, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, New York → Ashburn 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.

New York, USA → Ashburn, USA RTT