I've been on fast since day 1. Pings not that impressive though...then again I've never had particularly good pings with any ISP.

A lot depends on the routing. I have two ADSL connections here (I run an office from home), one Sky Max and one Zen 8000, and both are interleaved. The pings on Sky Max are always about 15mS higher than they are on Zen, and the Zen pings are nothing to write home about. Fortunately, I'm not an online gamer, so it doesn't matter.

zeb do you have max delay set to 8 on your sky bb??

No, the Sky Max is as it comes "out of the box"

better pings dont just help gaming

How so ? Please explain. Will I notice the extra 10mS on web page loads ? Don't think so, but I might notice the extra time to download pages if there are uncorrected errors in the data, caused by the lack of interleaving.

Ping times affect video and audio conferencing. A high latency can make for a poor conferencing session (this is why satellite has noticable delays when used for news broadcasts).

^^ What he said (he beat me too it), also it can effect things like uploading pics (connecting to the server your ftp'ing) and more importantly any voice comms be it teamspeak or VOIP programs - skype etc.

no need to be sarcastic with your reply zeb....

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he beat me too it

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Only by 10.5 hours. What kept ya?

> What kept ya?
He was trying to think up something else affected by latency, but FTP? I think not