Ping/traceroute request

[drizzy]

Hi all,

I'm currently on Be and get amazingly good pings to bbc.co.uk (steady 7-8ms). Sadly I'm moving house soon and it's fairly likely that the place I'll be moving to will have Sky broadband. As I usually play on european servers, I'm a little concerned that I'll have a rather unplayable ping.

It'd be great if someone in London who have had their 'max delays' decreased (as per the stickies in this forum) could post a tracert to clanwars.xs4all.nl and one to wargamez.dk.

Cheers

[dholdi]

From Preston, Lancs if its any help : -
clanwars = 44ms
wargamez = 38ms

[drizzy]

Yeah there's very helpful, thanks for replying!

That's a lot better than I expected to wargamez. clanwars is a bit higher though - would you be able to tracert clanwars.xs4all.nl and paste the result?

[dholdi]

Yeah, I'll do it tonight when I get home from work.

[IanMax]

heres mine with max delays set at default ( no change )

Pinging clanwars.xs4all.nl [194.109.69.76] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 194.109.69.76: bytes=32 time=37ms TTL=54
Reply from 194.109.69.76: bytes=32 time=37ms TTL=54
Reply from 194.109.69.76: bytes=32 time=37ms TTL=54
Reply from 194.109.69.76: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=54

Ping statistics for 194.109.69.76:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 37ms, Maximum = 38ms, Average = 37ms

and

Pinging wargamez.dk [83.136.89.122] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 83.136.89.122: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=58
Reply from 83.136.89.122: bytes=32 time=46ms TTL=58
Reply from 83.136.89.122: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=58
Reply from 83.136.89.122: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=58

Ping statistics for 83.136.89.122:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 45ms, Maximum = 46ms, Average = 45ms

Hope it helps.

I live in derby and a 15mb sync. Will be getting max delays reduced soon so will post back when its done,

Ian

[dholdi]

Drizzy, pm'd you - I sometimes play BF2142 on a european server and get better pings than some uk servers

[drizzy]

Cheers guys, I'm actually pleasantly suprised by these results. I had expected to give up any sort of competitive gaming.

[dholdi]

NP, dont know what games you play but have a look at our clan site, if you are interested you are more than welcome.
Team SkyUser

[alex-k]

my opinion u better stay on BE because sky pings arent very good , because sky is not for gaming... for downloads and uploads its fine but for gaming its just bad.

[dholdi]

I would beg to disagree, pings may not be as good as BE, but I cant tell the difference between one that pings at 30ms and one that pings at 50ms, that could be because I'm old and slow tho
I've even played on american server with pings of 100+ and held my own.
I think people pay to much to ping when packet loss is actually more important ?