Use EDBB’s latency, gateway, and looking-glass tools to benchmark network routes and choose the best VPS location.
Test connectivity from the networks your users actually use before choosing a VPS location. Geographic distance alone does not determine latency or routing.Open the relevant location on the EDBB website. Its Looking Glass, test addresses and download links provide the available network-test destinations for that location. Use the displayed current destination instead of an address copied from another location.
Ping for round-trip latency, where the target permits ICMP.
Traceroute or MTR for the route and end-to-end packet loss.
A download test for a sample of throughput along that particular path.
Repeat at relevant times and compare actual application performance. Recorded speed-test results and host-uplink capacity are not a guarantee of per-VPS throughput or future performance. Your ISP, route, destination and workload all matter.See diagnose packet loss and country-specific reachability.
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