It's not your server.It's the road your packets take.
Between Europe and the US your traffic rides a handful of shared roads — and which one it takes is automatic, not something you or we control. Something is always jammed somewhere. Pick where you connect from and where you're heading: see how much worse than usual it has run over the last 30 days, and which roads are jammed right now.
Traffic fromreaching
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avg slowdown vs usual · 30 days model
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every minute, how far above usual · modeledsnapshot frozen 12:00 UTC · 2 Jul 2026
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Legendgate jam now gate jam this month dots = a jam at a US gate / entry main route clearslowdown lane width = share of your traffic on it the many physical routes · colour = most-used
The curve is a labeled model (typical evening congestion + real documented incidents); the Jul 2 Cogent spike is measured (our mtr / RIPE RIS). The faint gray web is the real mesh of physical cable & fibre routes; the coloured lanes are the few your traffic actually prefers. No transatlantic cable faulted this month, so none is drawn red; only carrier roads recolor on documented incidents. By default every documented disruption is lit at once — tap a card to isolate one. Snapshot frozen 12:00 UTC, 2 Jul 2026. [build v8]
Documented disruptions
the spikes behind the average · to 2 Jul 2026
THE HONEST READ
A calm average, hiding brutal spikes
The average looks calm
Most minutes the path is only a few percent slower than usual — that's why casual browsing feels fine. We show that honestly, model and all; the headline number is deliberately un-scary.
The spikes are brutal
During a documented jam the same path runs 45–90% worse — effectively timeouts. One is happening right now on US-West, and over a month they keep coming.
Your path decides your fate
Same country — even the same host — can ride 9% or 69% of its traffic over one carrier. Low-diversity paths feel every Cogent jam; a proxy doing thousands of requests feels every spike.
The one thing that actually works
You can't move the roads. You can move your source.
You can't pick your route across the ocean, and you can't move the US services you talk to — nobody can. But you can move your own source onto the US side: run the server there, right next to those services. That takes the Atlantic — and every jam on it — out of the path.