https://bmoyer.net/tags/infrastructure/Recent content in Infrastructure on Benjamin MoyerHugoen-usMon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bmoyer.net/notes/two-hundred-packets/Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bmoyer.net/notes/two-hundred-packets/I was choosing between two VPS locations and did what everyone does: ten pings to each, compare the averages, pick the lower one. min avg max mdev Buffalo 18.5 20.3 25.2 1.9 Chicago 24.3 26.1 39.1 4.3 Clear enough. Buffalo by 5.8 ms, and Chicago has a 39 ms outlier besides. Except ten samples is nothing, and the outlier was the only hint that the distributions might not be what the means suggested.