My BQM is in north west of Ireland, on Youfibre and it's lower.

In reply to a post by BuckleZ:

My BQM is in north west of Ireland, on Youfibre and it's lower.

Then possibly its just down to how the Vodafone ISP run their network.

Sure. As said, above, it’s typically distance but also backhaul network dependent. I can shift minimum latency by swapping providers on the same fibre network.

The physical distance remains unaltered but the difference is how the packets traverse the tangled heterogeneous thing we know as the internet.

Moving on a few days, ignoring the first day, the evenings were not too bad, typically as below. I can still see though when Vodafone are getting loaded in the evening, even when we're not doing much.

Typical Day:
https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/...

HOWEVER, Sunday night was a different story with the evening peak being quite bad:
https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/...

I guess you get what you pay for, but Vodafone really should be better in my opinion. Need to have another look around to see what alternatives I can get.

I think this min latency thing is an interesting thing we should be looking into.. obviously will depend on locations but for the major altnets we should be able to do something feature wise on this.. If all things are well there shouldn't be a difference.. but I would expect B4RN say to be higher from our London location

I'm looking at adding BQM nodes on other networks too

Sounds interesting. How would you present the data?

In reply to a post by dgilbert2:

I guess you get what you pay for, but Vodafone really should be better in my opinion. Need to have another look around to see what alternatives I can get.

I ended up staying with Vodafone, time will tell if I've made a bad choice . At least I'm not getting CGNAT, which may been a problem if I'd have jumped ship. I guess I could have gone to the more expensive / premium end of the ISP market, but at the end of the day I couldn't justify the cost. What I have does at least work without causing noticeable problems for our usage (mainly streaming) rather than ping sensitive applications.