Ok guys, interesting discussion

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First, the 10ms is simply the time between the ECM request, and answer coming from the Oscam you request from.
Total trip time (in case of cache) is not so relevant, and impossible to measure.

If you think back to basics...

- Your EMU sends a specific request, for a specific controlword to Oscam
- The specific CW, once answered, has a validity of about 10 seconds. (for most crypt-types)
- Once the request is answered by a real card, the (specific) controlword / answer is send back to the client.
- Also, the CW is stored into local cache, and sent to the local cache of all connected CACHE-EX peers.

So, the only thing cache-ex does, is actively pushing that pack of valid, stored CW's to another local oscam cache, within milliseconds after the initial decode took place.
After that decoding moment, there is (depending on the crypt-type) 10 seconds of time that all clients will request the same CW, which is available in local cache, and can be answered within 10ms.

What to gain, well.. Using/requesting cache is "free". You only send/receive the cache produced by ecm usage from other users.
And it really saves usage. My stats now are about 75% cache3, 25% normal card/proxy usage on Canal Digitaal / SKYDE / SKY UK / CSAT FR.

Without cache3 this is about 25% cache1. Pretty good i think!