Hey. I can't add much more than what we have already discussed over email but I will go over it again here again for clarities sake.
The latency on the Netomnia (the access network) piece of the network is 1-2ms. That will be comparable / better than your FTTC latency with Zen. You are measuring latency from your home to Thinkbroadband. Thinkbroadbands network sits behind/within NetConnex (https://www.peeringdb.com/net/580) who are only available in Telehouse datacentre in London. We are present at Linx London, Wales, Scotland and Manchester and Linx London is the only place we receive advertisements for NetConnex. I stand to be corrected on any part of that, but it's what I can see based on BGP advertisements for the prefixes I see probes going to on those latency graphs of yours. So using Thinkbroadband alone to say whether our network has good or bad latency compared to another is in some ways misleading, you're purely judging the latency to Netconnexs network in Telehouse London.
Hi All,
Just thought I would reply to this, an alternative site similar to Thinkbroadband's latency monitoring tool is:
f8lure.mouselike.org
It works as well and does have some direct peering exchange points in LINX LON1, Manchester, Scotland. I will say I can't guarantee which interconnect facility the site is hosted at, as iomart hosting have a large number of facilities.
I will also say that in practice on Virgin Media's network I do notice a difference between Think broadband, and this service as well as for example Samknows whitebox.
It's worth noting you can set up a samknows docker for free, samknows has a wide range of UK and international based servers.
Like stated above please be mindful that this is only an indicator of latency to one service and is subject to third party factors.
The best way to measure latency is with a tool like NirSoft's ping info view allowing the pinging of multiple servers at once allowing a better idea of overall performance.
https://www.peeringdb.com/net/976
https://bgp.he.net/AS20860#_prefixes
Trace Route
Many Thanks,
RR-THE-IT-GUY
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Edited by RR_The_IT_Guy (Sun 10-Sep-23 22:51:21)