Quick ping question

[DGAF]

Hello all, new member, great forum etc . Just in the process of moving house and BT are coming tomorrow to install a phone line, then i have to give Sky a call to arrange my Max Broadband package.

Anyway, i've been searching through these forums reading tons of incredibly interesting and useful information that i'll probably never need to know, but there is something that i've been wondering.

I'm really into online gaming, mostly CoD, so i really wanted a good connection. But i realised that, even with the Sky Max package people are still getting high pings- 100m/s and that to get these pings reduced you have to contact Sky and tell them you want your Max Delays reduced to 8(?). And that when they complete this it seems that people average a ping of around 30m/s (from reading several topics on this forum).

Ok, well i was with Virgin Media at my old address, and my ping was generally around 10m/s>>>



So to me, even 30m/s still seems pretty high, right?

So would it not be possible to get the Max Delays reduced even further to create an even better ping? As when i do get the Sky Max package my Upload and Download speed should be even better than what i was recieving from Virgin. Or is there any one out there on a Sky package that recieves a ping around ths 10m/s mark?

Thanks for your time.

[Smithy99]

Sky will not reduce past 8. Even when I was on fastpath with another ISP my pings were around 22ms so no real difference.

If you end up pinging around the 30ms mark you will not have any problems, it will make no difference to your gameplay. A good stable ping is much bertter than a low one.

[Steven_Belfast]

Sky will not reduce past 8.

Some times they will but this depends on the line and not all CST can do this .

[googleme]

Some times they will but this depends on the line and not all CST can do this .

Sorry it's not supposed to be done. 32/16/8 is what it can be set to.

[Steven_Belfast]

Sorry it's not supposed to be done. 32/16/8 is what it can be set to.

And as i said its some times can be done using putty ,

[googleme]

Sorry, it's not sometimes it's never lower than 8. I have set it lower in putty does not make a massive change , but set it back

[Steven_Belfast]

I have set it lower in putty does not make a massive change , but set it back

This does not mean that others done put it lower than 8,
I know where you are coming from and under stand that it does not make that much of a change but it has been done .

[googleme]

Yeah people have done it, but its not a massive change, very much not worth it.

[Steven_Belfast]

Hey i remember one time on virgin my ping was at 2500 for like a week ,
They just kept saying it was my network card ,
Forgetting the fact i had 2 wired networks in my pc 1 wireless and over all had 2 pc`s 3 laptops ,

It was not until i let rip and inform them when doing a tracert was fine until hop 4 ,
Then they said ok we need to send some one out ,

Ok i said when ----- i was infromed 5 weeks !
But 3 hours later it was fine back to 40

[istat]

lol sounds like they where messing you around steve


i play cod4 with a ping of about 30-40 at home, and i can still seem to play top of my game with no dissadvantages so i think you'll be fine tbh! but if you like seeing them low numbers i cant help you there as im yet to be with sky