help from someone who can read into ping graphs

Just made the change from BT infinity to Sky fiber unlimited, was activated 2 days ago (17th), i've had 1-2 disconnects while ive actually been online. So thought i'd check my ping graph and notice spikes every few hours, just wanted to know if there is any obvious cause for this or is it just the "settling period" while DLM trys to adjust my line?

My Ping Graph

Thanks for any help

The fibre side of things should be pretty much the same, did you change service speeds at all?

nope both 38. my pings are alot lower on sky, to a game server before on bt that i was getting 26ms i am now getting 7ms to. but yea, just a few DC's now and then

Sounds like interleaving level is lower and the DLM will probably kick in and raise latency and thus be able to error correct the errors

Heres a question, Me and Hoolay88 are roughly 6 miles away from eatch other (I dunno him personally)

Why is it that we both get about 7ms pings even we both from different bt exchanges?

C:\Documents and Settings\Francis>tracert pingbox1.thinkbroadband.com

Tracing route to pingbox1.thinkbroadband.com [80.249.99.164]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 9 ms 7 ms 7 ms ip-84-38-37-12.easynet.co.uk [84.38.37.12]
4 6 ms 5 ms 6 ms linx-gw1.thn.ncuk.net [195.66.224.240]
5 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms te2-1-9.star10g.bdr-rt3.thdo.ncuk.net [80.249.97.17]
6 6 ms 8 ms 9 ms te1-1-1-31.core-rs2.thdo.ncuk.net [80.249.97.85]
7 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms pingbox1.thinkbroadband.com [80.249.99.164]
Trace complete.

Edited by francisuk25 (Fri 20-Jun-14 02:27:01)

There will be people a lot more than 6 miles away from you getting the same ping. And 6 miles is hardly any distance at all in ping times - it is fractions of a second to travel that distance. More significant is the route the ISP network takes around the country (that could add 100's of miles to a route) and the level of interleaving on the line.

C:\Users\jason>tracert pingbox1.thinkbroadband.com

Tracing route to pingbox1.thinkbroadband.com [80.249.99.164]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms SkyRouter.Home [192.168.0.1]
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 89.200.131.182
4 10 ms 15 ms 14 ms 02780968.bb.sky.com [2.120.9.104]
5 13 ms 10 ms 18 ms te1-1-1-31.core-rs2.thdo.ncuk.net [80.249.97.85]

6 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms pingbox1.thinkbroadband.com [80.249.99.164]

Trace complete.

last post was in reply to francis not ian.

In reply to a post by ian72:

There will be people a lot more than 6 miles away from you getting the same ping. And 6 miles is hardly any distance at all in ping times - it is fractions of a second to travel that distance. More significant is the route the ISP network takes around the country (that could add 100's of miles to a route) and the level of interleaving on the line.

Thanks for that much appreciated

In reply to a post by Hoolay88:

C:\Users\jason>tracert pingbox1.thinkbroadband.com

Tracing route to pingbox1.thinkbroadband.com [80.249.99.164]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms SkyRouter.Home [192.168.0.1]
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 89.200.131.182
4 10 ms 15 ms 14 ms 02780968.bb.sky.com [2.120.9.104]
5 13 ms 10 ms 18 ms te1-1-1-31.core-rs2.thdo.ncuk.net [80.249.97.85]

6 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms pingbox1.thinkbroadband.com [80.249.99.164]

Trace complete.

I get pings like that durning weekend/day use but for you routing is really good 6 hops not that bad, Are you on Sky Fibre Pro 80/20 or 40/10

Edited by francisuk25 (Sat 21-Jun-14 00:26:57)