Ping 110 ms?

[justinsn95]

Since I have had this connection, it has had an awful ping. It used to be about 57 milliseconds, but now its finally worked its way all the way to 110 milliseconds. Is there anything I can do to get this down to a reasonable number? Does paying for faster speeds get you a faster ping?

[T0mmy1977]

Originally Posted by justinsn95

Since I have had this connection, it has had an awful ping. It used to be about 57 milliseconds, but now its finally worked its way all the way to 110 milliseconds. Is there anything I can do to get this down to a reasonable number? Does paying for faster speeds get you a faster ping?

Is it DSL? Comcast/cable gets you a good ping.

[kwiksilver]

killernic

/troll

[Tomek]

Paying for a faster connection should not attain lower latency (unless something is wrong).

Your ping is 110 to where? The 1st gateway outside your home?

Have you run a trace to see where the bottleneck is?

[justinsn95]

No I have not run a trace yet. I'm afraid I'm a bit of a networking noob. Can I do it with some piece of software?

[Spartacus]

go to the command prompt and type in:
tracert "server name or IP" (minus the quotes)

example:

tracert google.com

and list what your results are

[Scubar]

Originally Posted by kwiksilver

killernic

/troll

If you get two and team them together you can 1/2 your ping

[Tomek]

anyone ever try RAIDing four?

[pheonix991]

Are you on wifi?

[thread]

Originally Posted by T0mmy1977

Is it DSL? Comcast/cable gets you a good ping.

ADSL can be good... I get 20s to a lot of local gaming servers.

Mind you, I get about 120 to the US, maybe the OP is pinging Australia .

[justinsn95]

Here's the results of the trace:

[Tomek]

The first hop is the time from your computer to the router in your house (or modem).

That looks normal, but the 2nd hop (from your router / modem) to the outside world is ****.

You will see a 50ms delay tacked on no matter where to try and go as you always, have to go through that router / gateway.

I'm guessing you are on A/DSL, so that's due to the distance you physically are from that gateway.

Call your provider's tech support and ask if 50ms in normal latency for their service within your proximity to the gateway.

Edit - just re-read your initial post. Where did the connection use to have 57ms ping to and then jumped to 110ms?

Also, do you have another computer to do the same test with?

[prudhomb]

Im happy with anything under 130. Pings aren't great when the signal has to travel 1/4 around the planet.

[killermodz]

Call your provider (looks like ATT from the sbcglobal hints) and try to get into higher up technical support. I'd make bets your running on an interleave profile (also called a noise profile). Running interleave can cause higher and erratic pings as the system compensates for error correction.

Log into your modem and post up some profile, level, and snr results if you can find them.

[Jahova]

http://speedtest.net/

Here is mine:
8ms, 24.17Mbps, 4.24Mbps - ComcastCable



Go and get your results from there. Maybe it will help explain.