ICMP RTT measurement from Taipei, Taiwan to Marseille, France: average latency, packet loss, jitter and route efficiency for this Asia–Europe path.

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

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

In the 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z test round, ICMP echo requests from Taipei, Taiwan to Marseille, France averaged 179.5 ms across 50 samples, with a minimum of 175.71 ms and a maximum of 189.07 ms. Packet loss was 0 percent and jitter was 2.52 ms, placing the route in the fair latency tier.

Marseille's role as a Mediterranean cable landing hub makes the Asia-to-France distance physically long: the geodesic distance is about 10,027 km, implying a vacuum floor of 66.9 ms and a fiber floor of 98.2 ms. The observed path runs about 1.83 times the fiber floor, or 54.7 percent fiber efficiency.

Against the 19 outbound routes in the same test set, this route ranks 16th, putting it on the slower side of the round. Its 3.41 ms standard deviation works out to a relative spread of about 1.9 percent, below the median variability ratio of 3.28 percent across the same set, so the path is stable even though its average latency is fair.

Latency Summary

Metric	Value
RTT	179.5 ms
Jitter	2.52 ms
Packet Loss	0%
Standard Fiber Floor	98.2 ms
Fiber Efficiency	54.7%
Latency Tier	Fair
Source Region	Asia Pacific
Destination Region	Europe

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: TPE → MRS

50 ICMP echo samples at 100 ms intervals · round 2026-08-16T04:07:28Z · avg 179.5 ± 0.48 ms (SE)

Sample distribution: box = interquartile range (177.1–180.7 ms), median 178.5 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	179.73
2	100	177.03
3	200	177.04
4	300	176.09
5	400	181.72
6	500	177.84
7	600	176.35
8	700	179.70
9	800	181.72
10	900	179.73
11	1000	178.19
12	1100	181.44
13	1200	179.47
14	1300	179.70
15	1400	177.91
16	1500	179.64
17	1600	187.94
18	1700	187.51
19	1800	183.81
20	1900	180.62
21	2000	178.74
22	2100	176.72
23	2200	176.72
24	2300	187.80
25	2400	183.90
26	2500	179.76
27	2600	177.62
28	2700	176.41
29	2800	180.81
30	2900	178.72
31	3000	176.76
32	3100	181.23
33	3200	179.21
34	3300	179.71
35	3400	177.10
36	3500	178.08
37	3600	177.58
38	3700	176.72
39	3800	176.17
40	3900	176.00
41	4000	175.71
42	4100	177.46
43	4200	177.29
44	4300	187.29
45	4400	189.07
46	4500	180.69
47	4600	177.42
48	4700	176.42
49	4800	177.26
50	4900	177.45

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 Taipei (25.05306, 121.52639) and Marseille (43.29695, 5.38107). 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	1.83×

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	175.71 ms
Average RTT	179.5 ms
Maximum RTT	189.07 ms
Standard deviation	3.41 ms
Stdev / average	1.9%

RTT trend

Estimated route stability across the selected time window.

Average: 179.5 ms
Minimum: 178.1 ms
Maximum: 181.4 ms
Average loss: 0.03%

Route Context

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

Reverse direction

Marseille to Taipei latency and RTT — 180.9 ms

Fastest routes departing Taipei (TPE)

Taipei to Hong Kong latency and RTT — 15.5 ms
Taipei to Tokyo latency and RTT — 31.9 ms
Taipei to Singapore latency and RTT — 44.3 ms
Taipei to Seattle latency and RTT — 115.8 ms
Taipei to Los Angeles latency and RTT — 132 ms

Fastest routes arriving at Marseille (MRS)

Paris to Marseille latency and RTT — 8.9 ms
Frankfurt to Marseille latency and RTT — 16.4 ms
London to Marseille latency and RTT — 17.9 ms
Amsterdam to Marseille latency and RTT — 19.6 ms
Berlin to Marseille latency and RTT — 20.2 ms

Same corridor (Asia Pacific → Europe)

Hong Kong to Moscow latency and RTT — 118.2 ms
Taipei to Moscow latency and RTT — 132.7 ms
Singapore to Marseille latency and RTT — 140.6 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/tpe-mrs.pings.{csv,json,yaml}. When citing, include the route, the measurement round timestamp, and the dataset version — for example: "Hats Network latency dataset, Taipei → Marseille 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.

Taipei, Taiwan → Marseille, France RTT