Should my ping be this high

[MadGamer1988]

Hey guys, should my ping be this high?

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2030212356.png

It can go up to as much as 38 to maybe 42ms sometimes, particularly in the evenings.

Thoughts?

[Webby]

Can you try pinging the bbc website and post the results?

[sjtp]

I get pings like that from speedtest.net; also got similar on BE, though maybe a tad lower. My bbc ping is around 20ms (was around 19ms on BE). Probably not an issue at all unless you are an extreme gamer.

[MadGamer1988]

Here they are 🙂

Ping has started…

PING www.bbc.net.uk (212.58.244.66): 56 data bytes

64 bytes from 212.58.244.66: icmp_seq=0 ttl=50 time=26.909 ms

64 bytes from 212.58.244.66: icmp_seq=1 ttl=50 time=30.388 ms

64 bytes from 212.58.244.66: icmp_seq=2 ttl=50 time=29.512 ms

64 bytes from 212.58.244.66: icmp_seq=3 ttl=50 time=26.104 ms

--- www.bbc.net.uk ping statistics ---

4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0.0% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 26.104/28.228/30.388/1.772 ms

[ironman123]

MadGamer1988,

Those ping are not too bad as the 28ms average is to and from the server,so your one way ping is about 14ms average.

For gaming,as long as you have a stable connection and do not get discoed it looks fine.

But I quess a ping below 15ms would be better.

It can also depend on distance to the server [game server] as about 104ms round trip to a US server would be ok as long as you stay connected.

I run game servers and some of the guys joining it sometimes show pings of about 150ms but as others on the server can also get quite high pings,it evens it`s self out as long as they all stay connected.

Obviously ping is important,but packet loss is what you don`t want.And you are not losing packets.

[Aarong]

Mine pings average anything between 22-29 at the moment, depending on where i'm pinging etc. In my honesty opinion, anything sub 30 should be fine for gaming, i don't really have any issues whilst gaming online.

[__]

I guess mileage may vary. My pings are pretty low by comparison.

I'm Wired to my HomeHub not Wireless BTW.

C:\Users\graeme>ping www.bbc.co.uk

Pinging www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.246.94] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.246.94: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=51
Reply from 212.58.246.94: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=51
Reply from 212.58.246.94: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=51
Reply from 212.58.246.94: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=51

Ping statistics for 212.58.246.94:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 10ms, Maximum = 11ms, Average = 10ms

Here's a Trace Route as well :

C:\Users\graeme>tracert www.bbc.co.uk

Tracing route to www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.246.91]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  BTHomeHub.<snip> [192.168.0.2]
  2     6 ms     5 ms     5 ms  217.32.147.3
  3     7 ms     7 ms     7 ms  217.32.147.46
  4     9 ms     8 ms     8 ms  213.120.177.74
  5     9 ms     8 ms     8 ms  217.41.168.227
  6     8 ms     8 ms     8 ms  217.41.168.109
  7     9 ms     8 ms     8 ms  109.159.249.240
  8    12 ms    15 ms    15 ms  core1-te0-15-0-17.faraday.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.249.159]
  9     9 ms     9 ms     9 ms  peer2-xe8-0-0.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.254.177]
 10     9 ms     9 ms     9 ms  194.74.65.42
 11     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 12    10 ms    11 ms    10 ms  ae0.er01.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk [132.185.254.93]
 13    12 ms    12 ms    12 ms  132.185.255.165
 14    10 ms    10 ms    10 ms  bbc-vip012.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk [212.58.246.91]

Trace complete.