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Title: ping results
Post by: Happy Surfer on Feb 07, 2010, 19:03:20
hey peeps done a ping test from bbc and got back 38ms average with lowest being 36ms,just wondering how this fares with other peoples results and what an average result is from bbc.
Title: Re: ping results
Post by: Steve on Feb 07, 2010, 19:44:33
Thats probably not too bad although mines lower at 20-25ms, its dependent on many factors such as exchange congestion,whether you have priority at the exchange,how far you are away from the server,whether your connection is interleaved or not and whether your adslmax or WBC.
Title: Re: ping results
Post by: RA-1972 on Feb 07, 2010, 20:38:48
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
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Pinging bbc.co.uk [] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=122
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=122
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=122
Reply from 212.58.224.138: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=122

Ping statistics for :
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 15ms, Maximum = 16ms, Average = 15ms
Title: Re: ping results
Post by: Happy Surfer on Feb 07, 2010, 20:50:12
im on adsl max my profile is 7150 and im always averaging 6.6meg on bt speedtest i dont know if i am interleaved or not and exchange is just down the road bout 150-200metres

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Title: Re: ping results
Post by: Glenn on Feb 07, 2010, 20:55:23
HS, I'm averaging around 28ms to the beeb.
Title: Re: ping results
Post by: Happy Surfer on Feb 07, 2010, 21:05:43
not that im having problems with ping when gaming but is there adjustments that idnet are able to make to improve or prioritise ping?

im just asking out of curiosity just so i know in the future wether it is possible should the situation arise :)
Title: Re: ping results
Post by: Glenn on Feb 07, 2010, 21:16:57
Home Super Pro is traffic prioritised at the exchange, along with 3 of the 4 business packages.
Title: Re: ping results
Post by: Happy Surfer on Feb 07, 2010, 21:41:48
ok thanks glenn, have idnet upped the gb allowance on all the packages? if they did they sure kept that quiet, idnet being modest as always
Title: Re: ping results
Post by: Simon on Feb 07, 2010, 21:43:57
It was announced first on the forums - here (http://www.idnetters.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=18560.0) - and they also sent out an email to customers.  ;)
Title: Re: ping results
Post by: Steve on Feb 07, 2010, 22:01:12
Quote from: Happy Surfer on Feb 07, 2010, 21:05:43
not that im having problems with ping when gaming but is there adjustments that idnet are able to make to improve or prioritise ping?

im just asking out of curiosity just so i know in the future wether it is possible should the situation arise :)

You may or may not have an interleaved connection, interleave is BT's method of reducing the amount of errors that arrive at your router and thus aids throughput if the error count is high. Unfortunately an interleaved connection tends to have higher pings times due to the latency induced by interleaving.To find out look here for more stats http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/frogstats.php, the stats may show FEC or forward error correction(interleave) or ask support.