In reply to a post by E1234TJ:

Is it possible if you can ping these and share your results?
qosping-aws-eu-west-2.ol.epicgames.com (london)
qosping-aws-eu-central-1.ol.epicgames.com (frankfurt)

To lend some context, here's a quick summary based on some quick and dirty tests from three of my connections:

1. London AWS servers (in eu-west-2a)
- London EG AWS: 0 ms min/max/average (unsurprisingly!!)
- Frankfurt EG AWS: 14 ms min/average/max

2. London EAD connection
- London EG AWS: min/avg/max/stddev = 2.652/2.792/2.904/0.075 ms
- Frankfurt EG AWS: min/avg/max/stddev = 13.829/14.024/14.153/0.092 ms

3. Suffolk FTTP connection (TalkTalk Biz on OR)
- London EG AWS: 10 ms min/avg/max
- Frankfurt EG AWS: 21 ms min/avg and 22 ms max

On a 40/10 FTTC Utility Warehouse via Talk Talk.

Pinging qosping-aws-eu-west-2.ol.epicgames.com
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 17ms, Maximum = 19ms, Average = 18ms


Pinging qosping-aws-eu-central-1.ol.epicgames.com
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 29ms, Maximum = 31ms, Average = 30ms

I'm thinking about going with IDNet. Does anyone with experience with this ISP have any comments/anything I should be aware of? Also is it possible to have a dynamic IP address with IDNet or is static the only option?

Edited by E1234TJ (Sun 07-Nov-21 02:39:26)

There’s a whole sub forum for them:
https://forums.thinkbroadband.com/idnet.html

Maybe read the the most recent threads to get some views and/or post your own thread asking for experiences.

I'm in the process of leaving IDNet.

They advertise lowest latency in the UK but the reality is they use Zen wholesale, and the connection behaves just like a Zen connection would. I've had the same outages (and there has been a few, more than I've experienced since ADSL days), and the same congestion and variable latency issues as Zen customers have reported.

Latency varies with each connection as you can be randomly routed via various places and I've seen latency as high as 18ms and as low as 5ms, this is to the Gateway, so that is added to each and every destination, also depending on the route it can be more or less congested.

You can play gateway roulette and keep dropping the WAN and reconnecting and you can get lucky and get on a better route, but I think a lot of Zen customers play that game, so eventually everyone congregates onto the lowest latency route, causing congestion, so every few weeks in the early hours they drop PPP for a chunk of connections to try and load balance the network again, at least that is my assumption why I've not gone more than a few weeks before a disconnection overnight.

They offer good support but can't do anything about Zen backhaul, and you would have to ask them why they still use them.