1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service

And look at these ping times:

                                   CloudFlare       Google DNS       Quad9            OpenDNS          
  NewYork                            2 msec           1 msec           2 msec           19 msec          
  Toronto                            2 msec           28 msec          17 msec          27 msec          
  Atlanta                            1 msec           2 msec           1 msec           19 msec          
  Dallas                             1 msec           9 msec           1 msec           7 msec           
  San Francisco                      3 msec           21 msec          15 msec          20 msec          
  London                             1 msec           12 msec          1 msec           14 msec          
  Amsterdam                          2 msec           6 msec           1 msec           6 msec           
  Frankfurt                          1 msec           9 msec           2 msec           9 msec           
  Tokyo                              2 msec           2 msec           81 msec          77 msec          
  Singapore                          2 msec           2 msec           1 msec           189 msec         
  Sydney                             1 msec           130 msec         1 msec           165 msec

Very impressive CloudFlare.

Where are you testing from? I'm going to guess: a datacenter. Residential customers won't see anything this fast. I'm in a small town in Kansas, connected by 1 Gbit ATT fiber. I'm getting ~26ms to 1.1.1.1 and ~19ms to my private DNS resolver that I host in a datacenter in Dallas. Google DNS comes in around 19ms.

I suspect that Cloudflare and Google DNS both have POPs in Dallas, which accounts for the similar numbers to my private resolver. My point is, low latencies to datacenter-located resolver clients is great but the advantage is reduced when consumer internet users have to go across their ISP's long private fiber hauls to get to a POP. Once you're at the exchange point, it doesn't really matter which provider you choose. Go with the one with the least censorship, best security, and most privacy. For me, that's the one I run myself.

Side note: I wish AT&T was better about peering outside of their major transit POPs and better about building smaller POPs in regional hubs. For me, that would be Kansas City. Tons of big ISPs and content providers peer in KC but AT&T skips them all and appears to backhaul all Kansas traffic to DFW before doing any peering.

If you are on ethernet, I am able to get 1-2ms pings. On same AT&T Fiber Gigabit. Wifi ruins both bandwidth and latency for me.

AT&T Fiber Gigabit in Nashville TN.

    iMac   ~ ping 1.1.1.1
    PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1): 56 data bytes
    64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.688 ms
    64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.814 ms
    64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=1.153 ms
    64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.752 ms
    64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.755 ms
    64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.789 ms
    64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=0.876 ms
    64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=0.869 ms
    64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=0.830 ms
    64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=1.387 ms
    --- 1.1.1.1 ping statistics ---
    10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
    round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.688/0.891/1.387/0.204 ms

Pinging 8.8.8.8 averages 8ms. CloudFlare must have a POP here in Nashville?