They use geolocation I know, because puts me in Hitchin where IDNet are based

Geolocation via IP address is no good for identifying locations in the United Kingdom, plain and simple so ignore that field on fast.com

I often get the adverts on advert-carrying websites that say "Laser eye surgery" or some other service is going viral in my location. It used to say Stockport when I was with Plusnet. These days it is usually Arnold! That's near Nottingham and AAISP HQ is in Bracknell.

Just had a thought. I must watch out for these ads to see where it says now my base latency has risen.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Geolocation via IP address is no good for identifying locations in the United Kingdom, plain and simple so ignore that field on fast.com

For fun, try this page: https://www.iplocation.net/

I like the understatement �The US domain names such as .com, .net and .org does not always imply that the host is located in the United States�.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

For fun, try this page: https://www.iplocation.net/

That was funny, I just check my connection and I was all over the place and it was way off, I am located in East London (about several miles from the London Eye) LOL

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Paul

Yes IP location doesn�t work in the UK unless you are on Virgin Media�s cable network. Even on VM you tend to find the neighbouring large town, rather than your own town.

I�m still interested in what this test is [really] telling me. So I have a gaming QoS set up. The family are fiddling about throughout the evening on Netflix/Youtube etc. What does the ping spike usefully show me? To my mind, and ignoring for a moment what might be an �average� graph, my expectation from the ISP is the narrowest margin possible between loaded and unloaded latency.

So the question is, with QoS set up, does the monitor ping get sent to the back of the queue? I would assume that an excellent connection graph should look bumpy, not tall and spikey. I understand that real world scenarios aren�t perfect, but I don�t think constant spiking denotes a quality connection, even when I�m draining a constant 10Mbps down.

I�m not talking about real world, just theoretically what a graph with a 7-10ms latency would look like, alternating between loaded and unloaded as my usage scenario above?

Without having your exact QoS to test on a known well behaving connection impossible to say...

Some QoS systems can show perfect latency for ICMP but if a game is using some TCP packets they may not be QoS preferrenced

i.e. almost all the simple turn on QoS systems are simple things like prioritise ICMP or UDP packets over TCP, or reserve 10% of bandwidth for a certain activity. In short you need to experiment with settings of your QoS system to determine what works best for you.