diff --git a/e2e/full-mesh.sh b/e2e/full-mesh.sh
index 494115a..b306fa1 100644
--- a/e2e/full-mesh.sh
+++ b/e2e/full-mesh.sh
@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@ setup_suite() {
 
 test_full_mesh_connectivity() {
 	assert "retry 30 5 '' check_ping" "should be able to ping all Pods"
-	assert "retry 10 5 'the adjacency matrix is not complete yet' check_adjacent 12" "adjacency should return the right number of successful pings"
+	assert "retry 10 5 'the adjacency matrix is not complete yet' check_adjacent 3" "adjacency should return the right number of successful pings"
 	echo "sleep for 30s (one reconciliation period) and try again..."
 	sleep 30
-	assert "retry 10 5 'the adjacency matrix is not complete yet' check_adjacent 12" "adjacency should return the right number of successful pings after reconciling"
+	assert "retry 10 5 'the adjacency matrix is not complete yet' check_adjacent 3" "adjacency should return the right number of successful pings after reconciling"
 }
 
 test_full_mesh_peer() {
diff --git a/e2e/lib.sh b/e2e/lib.sh
index 2de8af8..d8baa1c 100755
--- a/e2e/lib.sh
+++ b/e2e/lib.sh
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ check_ping() {
 
 check_adjacent() {
         _kubectl get pods -l app.kubernetes.io/name=curl -o name | xargs -I{} "$KUBECTL_BINARY" --kubeconfig="$KUBECONFIG" exec {} -- /bin/sh -c 'curl -m 1 -s adjacency:8080/?format=fancy'
-	[ "$(curl_pod -m 1 -s adjacency:8080/?format=json | jq | grep -c true)" -eq "$1" ]
+	[ "$(curl_pod -m 1 -s adjacency:8080/?format=json | jq '.[].latencies[].ok' | grep -c true)" -eq $(($1*$1)) ]
 }
 
 check_peer() {
diff --git a/e2e/location-mesh.sh b/e2e/location-mesh.sh
index dc3723f..bf42555 100755
--- a/e2e/location-mesh.sh
+++ b/e2e/location-mesh.sh
@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@ setup_suite() {
 
 test_location_mesh_connectivity() {
 	assert "retry 30 5 '' check_ping" "should be able to ping all Pods"
-	assert "retry 10 5 'the adjacency matrix is not complete yet' check_adjacent 12" "adjacency should return the right number of successful pings"
+	assert "retry 10 5 'the adjacency matrix is not complete yet' check_adjacent 3" "adjacency should return the right number of successful pings"
 	echo "sleep for 30s (one reconciliation period) and try again..."
 	sleep 30
-	assert "retry 10 5 'the adjacency matrix is not complete yet' check_adjacent 12" "adjacency should return the right number of successful pings after reconciling"
+	assert "retry 10 5 'the adjacency matrix is not complete yet' check_adjacent 3" "adjacency should return the right number of successful pings after reconciling"
 }
 
 test_location_mesh_peer() {