ICMP RTT measurements from New York, USA to Taipei, Taiwan: average latency, jitter, packet loss, and route efficiency for this 12,549 km pair.

🇺🇸 New York, USA (NYC) → 🇹🇼 Taipei, Taiwan (TPE)

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

In the 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z round, ICMP echo RTT from New York, USA to Taipei, Taiwan averaged 172.9 ms, with minimum 165.68 ms and maximum 206.02 ms over 50 samples. Packet loss was 0 percent, and jitter measured 5.27 ms.

The average is 41 percent above the 122.89 ms fiber-floor estimate for the 12,549.1 km great-circle distance, putting fiber-floor efficiency at 71.1 percent. This pair ranked 14th among the 19 routes leaving this origin in the round, while its standard-deviation-to-average ratio of about 4.6 percent is above the 3.08 percent median across those routes.

The route's absolute average is modest, but its variability is above the route-set norm. The maximum of 206.02 ms and a standard deviation of 7.97 ms mean latency can vary by tens of milliseconds from sample to sample, despite zero packet loss; the 172.9 ms average should be viewed alongside that upper range.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	172.9 ms
Jitter	5.27 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	122.89 ms
Fiber Efficiency	71.1%
Latency Tier	Fair
Source Region	North America
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: NYC → TPE

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-15T04:03:13Z · avg 172.9 ± 1.13 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (167.7–173.8 ms), median 170.1 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 (122.9 ms) for this route.

Full 50-sample dataset

Seq	Offset (ms)	RTT (ms)
1	0	187.40
2	100	173.08
3	200	170.61
4	300	185.14
5	400	191.72
6	500	182.03
7	600	177.84
8	700	169.57
9	800	167.73
10	900	167.52
11	1000	166.59
12	1100	165.91
13	1200	193.53
14	1300	206.02
15	1400	182.14
16	1500	171.15
17	1600	167.01
18	1700	166.93
19	1800	173.79
20	1900	169.72
21	2000	171.23
22	2100	167.28
23	2200	172.77
24	2300	167.73
25	2400	168.43
26	2500	168.05
27	2600	175.10
28	2700	168.81
29	2800	175.03
30	2900	171.79
31	3000	175.23
32	3100	170.21
33	3200	178.62
34	3300	169.58
35	3400	170.02
36	3500	168.90
37	3600	166.40
38	3700	167.37
39	3800	165.68
40	3900	166.81
41	4000	172.10
42	4100	173.49
43	4200	167.75
44	4300	167.99
45	4400	166.73
46	4500	173.72
47	4600	173.43
48	4700	168.70
49	4800	171.36
50	4900	169.26

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 Taipei (25.05306, 121.52639). It does not disclose either facility address.

Physical Reference	Value
WGS-84 geodesic distance	12,549.1 km
Vacuum RTT floor	83.72 ms
Standard fiber RTT floor ( $n_g=1.4679$ )	122.89 ms
Low-latency fiber material floor	122.4 ms
Engineering floor (5% path allowance)	129.05 ms
Research 1.33× mapped-fiber reference	163.44 ms
Estimated unamplified path loss	2635.3 dB
Transparent optical spans / inline amplifiers	165 / 164
Published RTT inflation over fiber floor	1.41×

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	165.68 ms
Average RTT	172.9 ms
Maximum RTT	206.02 ms
Standard deviation	7.97 ms
Stdev / average	4.6%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 172.9 ms
Minimum: 171.8 ms
Maximum: 174.4 ms
Average loss: 0.01%

Route Context

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

Reverse direction

Taipei to New York latency and RTT — 173.6 ms

Fastest routes departing New York (NYC)

New York to Ashburn latency and RTT — 6 ms
New York to Miami latency and RTT — 34.3 ms
New York to Los Angeles latency and RTT — 58 ms
New York to Seattle latency and RTT — 59 ms
New York to London latency and RTT — 64.3 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 (North America → Asia Pacific)

Seattle to Tokyo latency and RTT — 84.8 ms
Los Angeles to Tokyo latency and RTT — 100.9 ms
Seattle to Hong Kong latency and RTT — 130.7 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/nyc-tpe.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 → 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.

New York, USA → Taipei, Taiwan RTT