Ping / latency jumped to >30ms

My latency has jumped to over 30ms whereas 3 months ago it was only 6ms.

Any suggestions what's going on?

Is that consistent and repeatable (in both cases)? I do get latency figures all over the place myself and they differ between testers, speedtest.net generally being one of the lowest, but for a while speedtest.net was reporting 1ms for me, which is clearly impossible. For info, here is my current speedtest.net result - 9ms agrees with what my samknows box is telling me at the moment.

Edited by kasg (Tue 21-Jun-16 09:50:52)

Probably interleaving has turned on.

You need to posts a full set of router stats so people can see what's going on.

I use two of the speedtesters on here regularly and the one here nearly always returns a latency result approximately twice that of this one. I don't understand why and have stopped worrying about it 8^)

Edited by longedge (Tue 21-Jun-16 10:51:24)

I have ~20 results sine May 2013, usually ping has been single digits 7-9ms, once it was 0ms obviously something up. Today it was 28ms link, so it does seem to have jumped up.

I was looking because response time and general internet use seems sluggish, yet speed is still 72/19 mbs, so I don't think it's that.

Sky Go is freezing/buffering and xbox live drops connection from time-to-time.

I have the standard PN TG582n and I'm not sure how to extract the router stats for this?

Don't use speedtest.net for ping.

Use the proper ping utility in your OS against a well known target, i.e., this site would do the trick.



Pinging www.thinkbroadband.com [80.249.99.130] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 80.249.99.130: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=56
Reply from 80.249.99.130: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=56


Tracing route to www.thinkbroadband.com [80.249.99.130]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 6 ms <1 ms <1 ms
2 9 ms 9 ms 10 ms losubs.subs.dsl5.wh-man.zen.net.uk [62.3.83.10]
3 9 ms 10 ms 9 ms ae1-122.cr1.wh-man.zen.net.uk [62.3.86.17]
4 19 ms 15 ms 29 ms ge-3-0-0-0.cr2.th-lon.zen.net.uk [62.3.80.45]
5 40 ms 15 ms 15 ms ge-2-0-0-0.cr1.th-lon.zen.net.uk [62.3.80.41]
6 118 ms 211 ms 220 ms netconnex-gw.zen.net.uk [82.71.254.2]
7 17 ms 17 ms 18 ms te1-1-1-31.core-rs2.thdo.ncuk.net [80.249.97.85]
8 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms www.thinkbroadband.com [80.249.99.130]

Quite high, I'm in Belfast (quite some way from London):

traceroute to www.thinkbroadband.com (80.249.99.130), 64 hops max, 72 byte packets
1 bthomehub (192.168.1.254) 1.906 ms 1.782 ms 1.365 ms
2 * * *
3 * 31.55.185.177 (31.55.185.177) 16.820 ms 16.712 ms
4 31.55.185.176 (31.55.185.176) 16.365 ms 16.108 ms 16.961 ms
5 core2-hu0-17-0-5.colindale.ukcore.bt.net (195.99.127.158) 17.502 ms 16.928 ms 17.067 ms
6 peer6-hu0-1-0-1.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net (195.99.127.25) 17.199 ms 19.108 ms 17.417 ms
7 linx-gw1.thn.ncuk.net (195.66.224.240) 16.589 ms 16.831 ms 16.735 ms
8 te2-1-9.star10g.bdr-rt3.thdo.ncuk.net (80.249.97.17) 17.174 ms 16.988 ms 16.662 ms
9 te1-1-1-31.core-rs2.thdo.ncuk.net (80.249.97.85) 18.764 ms 18.507 ms 20.006 ms
10 www.thinkbroadband.com (80.249.99.130) 17.597 ms 16.885 ms 16.730 ms

With Plusnet

C:\Users\ping www.thinkbroadband.com

Pinging www.thinkbroadband.com [80.249.99.130] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 80.249.99.130: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=59
Reply from 80.249.99.130: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=59
Reply from 80.249.99.130: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=59
Reply from 80.249.99.130: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=59

Ping statistics for 80.249.99.130:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 8ms, Maximum = 8ms, Average = 8ms

Tracing route to www.thinkbroadband.com [80.249.99.130]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 2 ms 13 ms 2 ms dsldevice.lan [192.168.1.254]
2 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms lo0.10.Central10.ptn-bng02.plus.net [195.166.130.190]
3 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms irb.10.PTW-CR01.plus.net [84.93.249.1]
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms te2-1-9.star10g.bdr-rt3.thdo.ncuk.net [80.249.97.17]
6 9 ms 10 ms 9 ms po4-31.core-rs2.thdo.ncuk.net [80.249.97.85]
7 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms www.thinkbroadband.com [80.249.99.130]

Edited by TheBaron (Thu 23-Jun-16 20:21:24)