Checking connection delay with IB

Drawdown Addict said:
If you want to know for sure which server you are connecting to, you can run https://www.wireshark.org/ and it will tell you.

Looking at the 9ms that Mervyn got I would say that you are correct and your connection does not go to the US directly.
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A simple tracert or traceroute would do the trick. Nope ?
It shows the hops required to reach the server.

Wireshark might kinda be tough to begin with. It’s
 
For our VPS, 1ms from our NYC/NJ servers to IB East:

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Also 1ms from our Chicago location to IB Central

See here for Interactive Broker server endpoints: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/cgi-bin/conn_test.pl

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2rosy said:
What's the latency after the order hits IB? Isn't that more important?
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Yep, Compliance checks, 2 or more will take time also. BTW: it takes 200ms just to click a mouse.
Also this is helpful: https://testmy.net/latency

But anyone who has traded when it is borderline disorderly, knows that a connection for home-retail is bad to horrible.
 
Drawdown Addict said:
No, the point is to understand how long does it take for an instruction to reach IB. You don't really care of what happens "after". You can't control that anyway.
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Actually you can control it. Some introducing brokers, and clearing merchants pre clear you account.
 
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