Ping response time for Gamer

HI,
Looks like i'll be joining up too, another escapee from Eclipse. Just wondering what the pings are like to (say) multiplay.co.uk? Currently on an non-interleaved line i'm getting 10-15ms. Are the pings comparable on AAisp? The other thing i'm after is fast speeds to newsgroups - not after 100's of gigs a month, just fast speed when i want it and from what i've read that wont be a problem!
Mac code requested

thanks

I've got a badly interleaved line, so my ping times are not much use to you but they are stable:

Tracing route to core1.multiplay.co.uk [85.236.96.22]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
2 30 ms 31 ms 31 ms careless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.81.72]
3 31 ms 31 ms 31 ms needless.aaisp.net.uk [217.169.20.8]
4 33 ms 32 ms 31 ms lipex1.enta.net [193.109.219.56]
5 34 ms 33 ms 33 ms redbus-sov3.core.enta.net [84.45.193.206]
6 32 ms 31 ms 33 ms gi4-3.enta-transit.as35028.net [84.45.252.122]
7 31 ms 32 ms 32 ms core.multiplay.co.uk [85.236.96.22]

Trace complete.

Tracing route to secure.jolt.co.uk [82.133.85.65]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
2 32 ms 30 ms 32 ms careless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.81.72]
3 32 ms 32 ms 32 ms needless.aaisp.net.uk [217.169.20.8]
4 32 ms 32 ms 35 ms aimless.aaisp.net.uk [217.169.20.3]
5 32 ms 37 ms 34 ms 186.ge1-0.er1b.lhr4.uk.above.net [213.161.69.147]
6 33 ms 32 ms 33 ms gxn-pi-above-1000Mbps.lhr.above.net [209.249.203.138]
7 34 ms 32 ms 33 ms ge-0-2-0-0.cr09.tn7.dsl.pipex.net [62.72.141.38]
8 34 ms 32 ms 32 ms jolt-gw.nildram.net [195.149.20.214]
9 32 ms 33 ms 33 ms secure.jolt.co.uk [82.133.85.65]

Trace complete.

As for newsgroups, I can max out my connection (4.5-5Mb) from Astraweb.

                               Packets               Pings

 Host                         Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev 

 1. nano-itx-lan.dzki.co.uk    0.0%    45    0.2   0.2   0.2   0.9   0.1 

 2. zyxel-lan.dzki.co.uk       0.0%    45    0.5   0.5   0.5   0.7   0.0 

 3. careless.aaisp.net.uk      0.0%    44   12.7  13.1  11.4  26.2   2.6 

 4. needless.aaisp.net.uk      0.0%    44   12.5  13.0  11.7  16.1   1.0 

 5. lipex1.enta.net            0.0%    44   12.1  20.9  12.1 178.4  32.6 

 6. redbus-sov3.core.enta.net  0.0%    44   12.4  26.3  12.4 154.0  39.7 

 7. gi4-3.enta-transit.as3502  0.0%    44   13.8  17.8  12.5  80.7  12.5 

 8. www1.multiplay.co.uk       0.0%    44   13.1  14.2  12.2  20.4   1.6 

charlie@charlie:~$ traceroute multiplay.co.uk -I
traceroute to multiplay.co.uk (85.236.96.22), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 <snip> (81.2.<snip>) 0.630 ms 1.437 ms 0.408 ms
2 careless.aaisp.net.uk (81.187.81.72) 8.783 ms 7.512 ms 8.893 ms
3 needless.aaisp.net.uk (217.169.20.8) 10.864 ms 9.438 ms 8.761 ms
4 lipex1.enta.net (193.109.219.56) 10.603 ms 11.170 ms 11.218 ms
5 redbus-sov3.core.enta.net (84.45.193.206) 12.519 ms 10.521 ms 11.584 ms
6 gi4-3.enta-transit.as35028.net (84.45.252.122) 10.494 ms 10.546 ms 13.942 ms
7 www1.multiplay.co.uk (85.236.96.22) 10.342 ms 9.761 ms 10.726 ms

looks very good! Thank you all.

Whats with the Enta routing?

hop 1 my router.

2 25 ms 24 ms 26 ms careless.aaisp.net.uk [81.187.81.72]
3 25 ms 25 ms 25 ms needless.aaisp.net.uk [217.169.20.8]
4 25 ms 26 ms 25 ms lipex1.enta.net [193.109.219.56]
5 27 ms 26 ms 26 ms redbus-sov3.core.enta.net [84.45.193.206]
6 26 ms 26 ms 27 ms gi4-3.enta-transit.as35028.net [84.45.252.122]
7 25 ms 25 ms 25 ms www1.multiplay.co.uk [85.236.96.22]

and this is with interleaving.

AAISP peer with Entanet via Lipex, and Multiplay use Entanet transit...

Ah, missed the lipex bit, thanks for the reply olly.