Ping Times

fred246

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.

Exo

Ping from a command line and see what the speed is.
I always "ping bbc.co.uk"

[Deleted User]

I always ping Google.co.uk

Just tried, and I'm getting average 51ms.

fred246

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.

boliston

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 = 10ms

onomatopoeia99

boliston wrote: »

google gives good pings :cool:

ping google.co.uk

Pinging google.co.uk [2a00:1450:4009:800::2003] with 32 bytes of data:

You're just showing off that your ISP has full IPv6 support!

kwikbreaks

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

I always ping Google.co.uk

Just tried, and I'm getting average 51ms.

That's because you are on 3G. Decent ADSL/VDSL would normally be 10ms give or take a few ms with BBC or Google.

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.