Perth Latency Comparison: Real Ping Data and How to Measure Your Own

Latency, the time a packet takes to reach a server and come back, is one of the biggest factors in how fast a website or application feels. For Perth businesses it’s a real consideration, because the nearest major capitals are thousands of kilometres away.

This page gathers published, measured latency data from Perth, explains the physical minimum for each route, and gives you a repeatable way to test your own. All figures come from the sources cited; we haven’t estimated or rounded any of them up or down to look better.

Measured round trips from Perth

Data comes from WonderNetwork Global Ping Statistics, which runs 30 pings every hour between its servers and publishes the results. We took the latest 14 days of hourly results for each route (336 tests each), covering 21 September to 5 October 2026.

From Perth to	Median of hourly averages	Lowest single ping	Highest hourly average	Source
Adelaide	28.2 ms	27.9 ms	28.6 ms	link
Melbourne	37.2 ms	37.1 ms	37.3 ms	link
Sydney	45.9 ms	45.8 ms	46.2 ms	link
Brisbane	57.6 ms	57.1 ms	57.8 ms	link
Auckland	74.4 ms	74.0 ms	79.6 ms	link
Tokyo	144.4 ms	144.1 ms	299.4 ms	link
Singapore	200.2 ms	188.5 ms	365.4 ms	link
Hong Kong	203.5 ms	196.4 ms	356.7 ms	link
Los Angeles	205.3 ms	204.9 ms	206.0 ms	link
London	359.1 ms	314.0 ms	373.5 ms	link

Important caveats

• These are measurements between WonderNetwork’s own test servers. Your results depend on your ISP, your hosting provider’s network and the route between them.
• WonderNetwork updates its pages continuously, so the live figures will drift from this snapshot. We’ve kept the raw data from our 5 October 2026 collection and can share it on request.
• The Perth to Singapore and Hong Kong figures are much higher than straight-line distance would suggest. That points to the route these test servers’ traffic took during the period, not to a limit of the subsea cables between Perth and Asia. Different networks will see different results.

The physical floor: what’s possible at the speed of light

No network can beat physics. Light in optical fibre travels at roughly two-thirds of its speed in a vacuum, about 200,000 km per second. The table below shows the theoretical minimum round trip over the straight-line (great-circle) distance from Perth. These numbers are calculated, not measured.

Route	Great-circle distance	Theoretical minimum round trip	Measured median (above)
Perth to Adelaide	~2,131 km	~21.3 ms	28.2 ms
Perth to Melbourne	~2,721 km	~27.2 ms	37.2 ms
Perth to Sydney	~3,290 km	~32.9 ms	45.9 ms
Perth to Brisbane	~3,606 km	~36.1 ms	57.6 ms
Perth to Singapore	~3,915 km	~39.1 ms	200.2 ms
Perth to Los Angeles	~15,024 km	~150.2 ms	205.3 ms
Perth to London	~14,479 km	~144.8 ms	359.1 ms

Method: we calculated the great-circle distance between city-centre coordinates with the haversine formula (Earth radius 6,371 km), then worked out round trip = 2 × distance ÷ 200,000 km/s. Real cables don’t run in straight lines and every router adds a little delay, so measured figures are always higher.

Why latency adds up

Loading a web page takes several round trips: a DNS lookup, the TCP connection, TLS negotiation, and then the request itself. Google’s web.dev TTFB guide lists these as parts of Time to First Byte. Each additional round trip adds the route latency again, so the gap between a 46 ms route and a local one grows with every round trip a page needs.

How to measure latency yourself

Don’t rely on anyone’s marketing numbers, ours included. Here’s a simple method anyone can repeat.

What you need

• A computer on the network your users actually use, such as your office connection or a typical home NBN service.
• The IP address or hostname of each server you want to compare.

Step 1: Ping

# macOS / Linux: 100 pings
ping -c 100 your-server.example.com.au

# Windows
ping -n 100 your-server.example.com.au

Write down the min / avg / max figures. Look at the average, and check for packet loss.

Step 2: Look at the route

# macOS / Linux (install mtr if needed)
mtr -rwc 100 your-server.example.com.au

# Windows
tracert your-server.example.com.au

This shows each hop. If a server that’s supposed to be in Perth shows hops through Sydney or overseas, you’ve found the cause of the delay.

Step 3: Repeat at different times

Run the test at least three times a day (morning, lunchtime, evening) for a week. Evening peaks on residential connections can look quite different from business hours.

Step 4: Measure what users actually feel

Use Chrome DevTools (Network tab) or WebPageTest to record Time to First Byte for your actual website, not just ping times.

Step 5: Compare fairly

Use the same source connection, the same time window and the same number of tests for every server you compare. Report the median, not your best result.

Testing Green Racks from Perth

We haven’t published WonderNetwork-style hourly tables for our Osborne Park, Perth WA 6017 facility on this page, because we want any number you rely on to be measured directly from your own WA connection with the method above. Whether you are evaluating Perth VPS hosting (from $39/month*), bare-metal dedicated servers in Perth (from $199/month*), Perth colocation (1U from $114.99/month* or managed from $200/month*), or web hosting in Perth (from $59/month*), contact us and we’ll give you a test IP address in Osborne Park so you can run the steps yourself.

Related reading

• Perth Data Centre & Colocation Guide 2026
• Web hosting in Perth: local vs east coast vs overseas
• Our Osborne Park facility

Data: WonderNetwork Global Ping Statistics, retrieved 5 October 2026. Distances are calculated great-circle values. This page will be updated periodically.

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