I just pinged a few million random IP addresses from my apartment in NYC. Here’s the result:  Some notes:  What’s going on with Sweden? Too much torrenting? Ireland is likewise super slow, but not Northern Ireland Eastern Ukraine is also super slow, maybe not surprising given current events.

Erik Bernhardsson

A developer pinged millions of random IP addresses from NYC and visualized global network latency on a world map. Key observations include surprisingly slow internet in Sweden, Ireland, and eastern Ukraine, while Russia shows fast response times. The methodology uses 50 nearest-neighbor averaging with outlier removal, the Annoy library (a Python approximate nearest-neighbor tool) for spatial smoothing, and Basemap for plotting. Source code is available on GitHub.

Ping the world