diff --git a/src/latency.rs b/src/latency.rs
index 1e2b08e..dc2f7ad 100644
--- a/src/latency.rs
+++ b/src/latency.rs
@@ -73,13 +73,17 @@ pub async fn run(
     results
 }
 
+/// Timed round-trips on the warm connection; the fastest is reported to shed
+/// transient network jitter.
+const SAMPLES: usize = 3;
+
 /// Measure the steady-state round-trip latency through the node via `ip`.
 ///
 /// Building the tunnel and the inner TLS is a one-time cost a live proxy
 /// session pays only once, so we exclude it: set up the connection, send a
-/// throwaway warm-up request, then time a second request on the warm
-/// connection. That matches what clients like v2rayN report — the per-request
-/// RTT, not the cold connect-and-handshake total.
+/// throwaway warm-up request, then time several follow-up requests on the warm
+/// connection and keep the fastest. That matches what clients like v2rayN
+/// report — the per-request RTT, not the cold connect-and-handshake total.
 pub async fn measure(node: &VlessNode, ip: IpAddr, timeout: Duration) -> Result<Duration> {
     let attempt = tokio::time::timeout(timeout, async {
         let tunnel = vless::connect(node, ip, TARGET_HOST, TARGET_PORT).await?;
@@ -89,12 +93,24 @@ pub async fn measure(node: &VlessNode, ip: IpAddr, timeout: Duration) -> Result<
         let mut stream = vless::tls_connector().connect(sni, tunnel).await?;
 
         // Warm-up: absorbs the tunnel + TLS setup cost (and TCP slow start).
+        // Timed too, so it can stand in as the result if the node won't honour
+        // keep-alive for the follow-ups, rather than failing the IP outright.
+        let warmup_start = Instant::now();
         request_once(&mut stream).await?;
+        let warmup_rtt = warmup_start.elapsed();
 
-        // Timed: pure request round-trip on the established connection.
-        let started = Instant::now();
-        request_once(&mut stream).await?;
-        Ok(started.elapsed())
+        // Fastest of several round-trips on the warm connection. Stop at the
+        // first reuse failure and keep whatever samples we did gather.
+        let mut best: Option<Duration> = None;
+        for _ in 0..SAMPLES {
+            let started = Instant::now();
+            if request_once(&mut stream).await.is_err() {
+                break;
+            }
+            let rtt = started.elapsed();
+            best = Some(best.map_or(rtt, |b| b.min(rtt)));
+        }
+        Ok(best.unwrap_or(warmup_rtt))
     })
     .await;