bad pings

[Needhelp]

Ok my last provider, I pinged the BBC website at 25-30 ping, got sky set up yesterday and pinged BBC at 42 MS.. Ok.. higher then expected but it's ok, now today it's at 60 ms!!!

Why is this happening and what can I do about it?

I like to play a lot of online games and I can't if I'm lagging.

My system details.

System Details
Manufacturer Sagemcom
Model Number F@ST2304
Firmware Version 5.14.6.1a4N
ADSL Firmware Version A2pD030n.d23b
Modem
Modem Status Connected
DownStream Connection Speed 5522 kbps
UpStream Connection Speed 797 kbps
VPI 0
VCI 40
ADSL Port
MAC Address
IP Address
Network Type MER
IP Subnet Mask
Gateway IP Address
Domain Name Server 90.207.238.97 90.207.238.99
LAN Port
MAC Address
IP Address
DHCP On
IP Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
Wireless Port
Name (SSID) SKY831FD
Region Europe
Current Channel 1
Wireless AP enable
Broadcast Name enable

and this


Port Status TxPkts RxPkts Collisions Tx B/s Rx B/s Up Time
WAN MER 71262 78504 0 5489671 95264614 0:18:02
LAN Up 80107 72791 0 96634848 5977335 0:19:17
WLAN Up 0 0 0 0 0 0:18:58
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 5522 kbps 797 kbps
Line Attenuation 47.5 dB 28.8 dB
Noise Margin 6.5 dB 12.2 dB

[timc]

Best edit out any reference to IP addresses and MAC addresses for security reasons.

[Needhelp]

Also my speed yesterday was 3/s now its 5/s but id rather have a low ping.

do you have any idea why its done this?

[Shonk]

you need to wait 10 days
it changes settings every night
dont turn off your modem or reboot it for the next 10 days

[Needhelp]

Well i had to reset it because it kept getting an ip clash between my laptop and pc, have a i ****ed it up or something?

[Isitme]

Well i had to reset it because it kept getting an ip clash between my laptop and pc

Either make sure they are both set to 'Obtain an IP address automatically' or give them both different IP addresses. The former is often the best for laptops which are liable to be used on different networks.

Wait till the 10 days DLM training is complete, then ask to be put on a gamer profile.

With the low noise margin you have it is likely your speed will come back down. If you have an NTE5 socket, plug into the Test socket and see if your noise margin increases any.
How to test your ADSL in the Master Test Socket

[BuckleZ]

I moved from Sky LLU Unlimited to BT Infinity last week and i lost over 10ms on my pings... with sky i ranged from 36-40ms

Now with BT...

Pinging jolt.co.uk [84.234.17.86] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 84.234.17.86: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=115
Reply from 84.234.17.86: bytes=32 time=26ms TTL=115
Reply from 84.234.17.86: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=115
Reply from 84.234.17.86: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=115

Ping statistics for 84.234.17.86:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 25ms, Maximum = 28ms, Average = 26ms

Speeds are in my sig

[timc]

This is mine on Sky Unlimited:-

Pinging BBC - Homepage [212.58.244.67] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.244.67: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.58.244.67: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.58.244.67: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=56
Reply from 212.58.244.67: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=56

Ping statistics for 212.58.244.67:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 24ms, Maximum = 24ms, Average = 24ms

This is the best I've ever had and coincidently I've run a TCP/IP optimizer within the last few days.

[Exdee]

I moved from Sky LLU Unlimited to BT Infinity last week and i lost over 10ms on my pings... with sky i ranged from 36-40ms

Now with BT...



Speeds are in my sig

Quite poor for a FTTC product.
If you want better latency ask them to put you on Fast path.

Normally the DLM at BT puts you on fastpath while on the initial training process. But restarting your router even once causes it to switch to interleaved. It usually takes a few months before it goes back again.

[BuckleZ]

Quite poor for a FTTC product.
If you want better latency ask them to put you on Fast path.

Normally the DLM at BT puts you on fastpath while on the initial training process. But restarting your router even once causes it to switch to interleaved. It usually takes a few months before it goes back again.

Not when you're across the water in Northern Ireland it ain't. It is fast path I believe, even my mate on 50mb Virgin gets 23-26ms. Its due to the distance to London just and being routed through Scotland.

Traceroute has started…

traceroute to jolt.co.uk (84.234.17.86), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 api (192.168.1.254) 2.150 ms 1.677 ms 1.631 ms
2 217.32.142.100 (217.32.142.100) 12.489 ms 15.272 ms 12.146 ms
3 217.32.142.142 (217.32.142.142) 13.558 ms 18.944 ms 18.287 ms
4 213.120.163.26 (213.120.163.26) 18.585 ms 18.267 ms 18.094 ms
5 217.32.27.14 (217.32.27.14) 20.436 ms 24.544 ms 24.674 ms
6 217.32.27.178 (217.32.27.178) 18.364 ms 18.370 ms 18.025 ms
7 acc1-10gige-7-3-0.mr.21cn-ipp.bt.net (109.159.250.98) 18.032 ms
acc1-10gige-1-2-0.mr.21cn-ipp.bt.net (109.159.250.70) 18.111 ms
acc1-10gige-7-2-0.mr.21cn-ipp.bt.net (109.159.250.96) 17.785 ms
8 core2-te0-3-5-0.ilford.ukcore.bt.net (109.159.250.15) 29.665 ms
core2-te0-13-0-0.ilford.ukcore.bt.net (109.159.250.11) 26.310 ms
core1-te0-3-0-5.ealing.ukcore.bt.net (109.159.250.13) 23.203 ms
9 peer1-xe0-1-0.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net (109.159.254.132) 24.960 ms 25.410 ms 24.740 ms
10 linx-brocade1.netrino.co.uk (195.66.225.18) 27.342 ms 24.900 ms 27.080 ms
11 h67-edge.netrino.co.uk (84.234.19.153) 24.990 ms 27.959 ms 24.962 ms
12 hex-edge.netrino.co.uk (84.234.19.218) 25.445 ms 25.234 ms 24.786 ms
13 bs1-core.netrino.co.uk (84.234.19.5) 26.024 ms 26.024 ms 26.221 ms
14 bruce.ferrago.net (84.234.17.86) 25.778 ms 26.238 ms 25.916 ms