When signing up for our service we recommend a server based on what we approximate to be the closest server to you. If you have a phone number (for incoming calls), that number (aka DID) is assigned to a server, and unless you are connected to that particular server, you will not be able to receive incoming calls - they will all go straight to your voicemail, without ringing. However, if you are travelling, connecting to your home server might be impractical due to latency. In that case, you could order a new phone number, which may very well be temporary, in your new area. We could then attach it to the server closest to you and forward the calls from your home phone number to the new temporary number. You can test yourself, objectively, which server is best for your new location. For our situation, we compared Toronto and Montreal. This means running ping toronto.ezvoip.co and ping montreal.ezvoip.co (and optionally ping montreal2.ezvoip.co) and see which is fastest. We obtained an average of 11ms for Toronto, 102ms for London (not shown) and an average of 45ms for Montreal, which means that for our location the Toronto server is the fastest. You may run such a test on virtually any platform and operating system. Windows First, start a command prompt. To do so, press Windows key + R or click Start -> Run Program.To determine which of the two servers is fastest, we will use in our example Toronto and the Montreal, though you may use whichever servers are closest to you.  In the screenshot above you can see the results of the Toronto and Montreal servers ping under Windows. iOSOn a Mac (such as a MacBook or a Mac Mini), you need to use Network Utility.
On an iPhone, you may use a free utility such as the very popular Network Ping Lite (3*-412, latest 2013 5*-10), Ping - network reachability test (not enough ratings). AndroidYou have the option of using ping within a more advanced application, such as Terminal Emulator (4.4*-87259), Network Discovery (4.2*-4734), Port Scandroid (offline) or Connect Bot (4.6*-152818), or in a simpler and specialized app such as Ping & DNS (4.3*-6021), PingTools Network Utilities (4.4*-8360), PingUp! (offline). LinuxHere's a Linux shell script that might help: #!/bin/sh # Ping several servers and display Latency, Jitter and Packet Loss # # create a text file with servers to ping - one hostname per line. # The list of EZvoip servers: /faq/whereareyourserverslocated-1 myHF="voip_ping_hosts.txt" # Sample file: # toronto.ezvoip.co # montreal.ezvoip.co # seattle.ezvoip.co # chicago.ezvoip.co # newyork.ezvoip.co # echo "==============================================" printf "%-22s %7s %8s %6s\n" "VoIP Server" "Latency" "Jitter" "Loss" echo "==============================================" cat ${myHF} |\ while read myLn do ping -c 3 -w 5 -q $myLn |\ awk '/^PING / {myH=$2} /packet loss/ {myPL=$6} /min\/avg\/max/ { split($4,myS,"/") printf( "%-20s %3.1f %1.3f %4s\n", myH, myS[2], myS[4], myPL) }' done echo "=============================================="
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