BT FTTP vs Hyperoptic FTTP

I've been looking at BT Full Fibre FTTP speedtests on youtube and all of them have above 10 milliseconds ping (some going up to 40ms even on a wired ethernet connection). If I search for a hyperoptic speed test all of the videos have under 3ms.

Are these all just special cases or can I expect the same ping with BT FTTP as hyperoptic?

Yes, I have to say, I'm not impressed with the "high" ping on Openreach FTTP. Should be in the low single figures, not in the 10s, I wonder why this is!

In reply to a post by Grimers:

Yes, I have to say, I'm not impressed with the "high" ping on Openreach FTTP. Should be in the low single figures, not in the 10s, I wonder why this is!

I know right, even one of my family members on BT FTTC get less than 10MS, normally around 5-8MS

Another family member of mine tells me they live near a data centre and gets around 1MS and 3MS on a bad day on one of the FTTP providers, can't remember who.

I happen to get sub-3ms on BT to teh BT servers and maybe 2ms to TBB

However, ping is a false metric and should nlot be used to compare services unless you are using te same test point. You realistically need two neighbours one on BT and one on Hyperoptic and then test to TBB or a specific speedtest.net server (or several).

Edited by MHC (Sat 02-Oct-21 20:20:54)

W1234TJ

You have to take location into account, many Hyperoptic customers are in and around London so very low pings to London based speed testers.

BT's FTTP customers are mainly remote from London, some in NI and Scotland, distance then starts to affect pings significantly. If in Scotland you add 10ms just for distance without taking any additional switching into account. NI can be even more due to the subsea links adding extra distance.

No Scottish customer can get less than 10ms to London regardless of ISP.

Where in the country are you?

What kitkat said

I'm from london and planning to get openreach FTTP as it is the only FTTP available in my area

In reply to a post by Grimers:

Yes, I have to say, I'm not impressed with the "high" ping on Openreach FTTP. Should be in the low single figures, not in the 10s, I wonder why this is!

If your testing against a server that is located outside your own location of Devon will be the first factor.

I would be surprised if the majority of ISPs didn't send Devon to Devon traffic via their core (more likely London) anyway.

In reply to a post by E1234TJ:

I'm from london and planning to get openreach FTTP as it is the only FTTP available in my area

And you will be perfectly happy with it.

I'm in Kent and get 5ms to 8.8.8.8 via Cerberus over Openreach FTTP. But if it were 20ms I wouldn't notice the difference.