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Ping Times
fred246
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Just gone onto talktalk fibre broadband which is excellent. I decided to put the router next to the master socket with a quality RJ11 cable. All broadband access would then be through a powerline network (200mbps) to devices throughout my house. I was upset that the ping times on broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk were about 134ms. However on speedtest.net they are 34ms. I have repeated them and they never change. Which speedtest is accurate? Everything works well. My son is an avid gamer and hasn't said anything but I understand that 134ms would be a bit slow for gaming.
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Ping from a command line and see what the speed is.
I always "ping bbc.co.uk"0 -
I always ping Google.co.uk
Just tried, and I'm getting average 51ms.0 -
Thanks for that. Google and BBC are both 32ms. It seems to be http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/ that I kept using that was misleading me. I thought all the common speed tests would indicate a similar result but it's not the case obviously.0
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google gives good pings :cool:
ping google.co.uk
Pinging google.co.uk [2a00:1450:4009:800::2003] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 2a00:1450:4009:800::2003: time=10ms
Reply from 2a00:1450:4009:800::2003: time=10ms
Reply from 2a00:1450:4009:800::2003: time=10ms
Reply from 2a00:1450:4009:800::2003: time=10ms
Ping statistics for 2a00:1450:4009:800::2003:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 10ms, Maximum = 10ms, Average = 10ms0 -
You're just showing off that your ISP has full IPv6 support!google gives good pings :cool:
ping google.co.uk
Pinging google.co.uk [2a00:1450:4009:800::2003] with 32 bytes of data:
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That's because you are on 3G. Decent ADSL/VDSL would normally be 10ms give or take a few ms with BBC or Google.Bedsit_Bob wrote: »I always ping Google.co.uk
Just tried, and I'm getting average 51ms.
Wifi often introduces more latency and from the OPs 32ms I'm guessing homeplugs must too. Not that it matters much except to a gamer.
Latency does vary by distance too but I'm not at all sure of how much inside the UK.0
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