Seem to have bad latency even if selecting closest region

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Good Day&nbsp;I am busy testing Azure Windows Virtual Desktop. (WVD). Our office is based in Johannesburg.&nbsp;We did setup the test WVD hostpool and remote app pool selecting South Africa North as the region.&nbsp;Testing the latency using;&nbsp;https://www.azurespeed.com/Azure/LatencyWe get around 30-50ms to South Africa North.&nbsp;However when typing on the Virtual Desktop or Remote App. We used WordPad as the test.The latency when typing is very slow.&nbsp;Its almost as if the traffic is getting routed somewhere else before South Africa when using Windows Virtual Desktop.&nbsp;How do we check this?How do we improve the performance?&nbsp;Regards&nbsp;

desk22 · Answer

Can any one help?

david brophy · Answer

desk22&nbsp;What do you see at&nbsp;https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-desktop/assessment/?

desk22 · Answer

David Brophy&nbsp;&nbsp;Hi David&nbsp;&nbsp;This is strange, i am based in South Africa. Also our region we built the test WVD is in South Africa North.&nbsp;When i look at the&nbsp;Experience Estimator, it shows both South Africa regions as some of the worst.&nbsp;How could this be?&nbsp;&nbsp;Kind Regards

david brophy · Answer

desk22&nbsp;I don't know enough about the back end of it but I believe it's based on Azure Traffic Manager, see documentation here:&nbsp;https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/traffic-manager/traffic-manager-how-it-worksI'm based near the North Europe datacenter and until recently West Europe was showing as the lowest latency for me but now North EU is showing as lowest as I would expect. I haven't changed my DNS so I assume either my DNS provider has made a change or Microsoft have made some change.

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