Poor Pings

I have noticed that since the "Upgrade" my pings to UK and European servers have doubled. Also I'm getting this effect, that say my ping will be around 50ms to a European Server and then in a cyclic fashion raise up to 150ms.

It's getting to the point where I'll be auto booted from gaming servers. I hope things don't continue like this, as the main reason I have an Idnet connection (and pay more than the mainstream ISPs) is so I have a good gaming connection.

Could be a "stale session"... have you tried turning your router off for half an hour?

There does appear to be a widespread problem, Bill, I'm seeing pings of 160ms where I normally get 22ms. I'm collating reports at Netters atm, and have alerted support.

True enough... I'm getting pings ~100ms to jolt and bbc, they're usually <20ms. Hadn't noticed before as I don't do gaming, as you know.

Me neither, Bill, I only started testing when the reports began to come in. As of now, though, things seem to be returning to normal.

Looking at my favourites in Steam, where I normally filter only servers with a ping of under 100ms, all even from the UK are 150+ ms. I'm seeing my favourite European gaming server which is usually <50ms (which is excellent) at around 180ms, which isn't acceptable to the servers policy.

I have now turned off my router for 1 hour and checked again and although the pings are slightly eratic, they are back in the area I would normally expect.
I had checked the router profile and the throughput before switching the router off and all was ok on that side of things.
So i don't know if turning the router off, has had an affect or something has been corrected at Idnet during that off time (which was an hour+)

Hopefully things will stay ok now... I'll repost if pings start to rise again or do this "Cyclic" thing.

Many thanks for all your replies..

Coming down, but still 3-4x normal. Very erratic, too. I'll have another check later.

They seem to be increasing again, Bill, after a normal period from ~17:53-18:08. I'm about to email support again.

Mine are all over the place. 10 second intervals:

PING bbc.co.uk (212.58.224.138): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=0 ttl=122 time=14.866 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=1 ttl=122 time=24.196 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=2 ttl=122 time=17.328 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=4 ttl=122 time=56.247 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=5 ttl=122 time=28.140 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=6 ttl=122 time=30.569 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=7 ttl=122 time=54.975 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=8 ttl=122 time=15.254 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=9 ttl=122 time=51.755 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=10 ttl=122 time=21.939 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=11 ttl=122 time=16.751 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=12 ttl=122 time=28.073 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=13 ttl=122 time=26.086 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=14 ttl=122 time=14.993 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=15 ttl=122 time=61.562 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=16 ttl=122 time=121.722 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=17 ttl=122 time=16.464 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=18 ttl=122 time=18.704 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=19 ttl=122 time=13.974 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=20 ttl=122 time=14.982 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=21 ttl=122 time=26.199 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=22 ttl=122 time=14.091 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=23 ttl=122 time=14.825 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=24 ttl=122 time=51.561 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=25 ttl=122 time=18.529 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=26 ttl=122 time=31.816 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=27 ttl=122 time=19.948 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=28 ttl=122 time=13.826 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=29 ttl=122 time=15.508 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.138: icmp_seq=30 ttl=122 time=15.773 ms
^C
--- bbc.co.uk ping statistics ---
31 packets transmitted, 30 packets received, 3% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 13.826/29.022/121.722/22.332 ms

More usual results from a few days ago:

http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/showthreaded.php?Board=which_isp&Number=3556368

Yep, just started playing TF2 and they are back upto around 100ms again.