Is this ping to high?

Hi all,

I have just recently started playing games online again. Upon playing COD2 I noticed that my ping was quite high, so I pinged a few sites to see what I got.

ping dns1.xifos.net -t

Pinging dns1.xifos.net [80.77.240.31] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=105ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=104ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=99ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=76ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=78ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=95ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=96ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=86ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=108ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=127ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=126ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=113ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=92ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=111ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=149ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=135ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=146ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=149ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=130ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=138ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=139ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=146ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=125ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=113ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=122ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=96ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=91ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=91ms TTL=61
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=61ms TTL=61

ping adslguide.org -t

Pinging adslguide.org [80.249.99.120] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=117ms TTL=119

Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=87ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=106ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=93ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=90ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=106ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=104ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=83ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=70ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=55ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=55ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=66ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=92ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=57ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=62ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=59ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=62ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=58ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=89ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=92ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=93ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=61ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=57ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=56ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=57ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=66ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=72ms TTL=119

From what I can rememeber my ping is usually at about 60ms!! Is this too high to begin with??? I know I have interleaving turned on!!

I am with Xiphos on ADSL Max. I have no probs with Connection and its always stable. I am using a Netgear DG834 router. I restarted the router and PC to eliminate that being the problem.

Any Ideas what else i can try???

that's a bit long, I get <40 ms from another ISP to www.xifos.net

Ask your ISP to turn the interleaving off.

Surely interleaving wouldn't have increased the latency/ping that much?

Ping has started ...



PING dns1.xifos.net (80.77.240.31): 56 data bytes

64 bytes from 80.77.240.31: icmp_seq=0 ttl=57 time=21.782 ms

64 bytes from 80.77.240.31: icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=21.505 ms

64 bytes from 80.77.240.31: icmp_seq=2 ttl=57 time=22.273 ms

64 bytes from 80.77.240.31: icmp_seq=3 ttl=57 time=21.092 ms

64 bytes from 80.77.240.31: icmp_seq=4 ttl=57 time=21.210 ms

64 bytes from 80.77.240.31: icmp_seq=5 ttl=57 time=22.165 ms

64 bytes from 80.77.240.31: icmp_seq=6 ttl=57 time=21.384 ms

64 bytes from 80.77.240.31: icmp_seq=7 ttl=57 time=21.568 ms

64 bytes from 80.77.240.31: icmp_seq=8 ttl=57 time=21.469 ms

64 bytes from 80.77.240.31: icmp_seq=9 ttl=57 time=21.505 ms



--- dns1.xifos.net ping statistics ---

10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 21.092/21.595/22.273/0.360 ms

Ping has started ...



PING www.adslguide.org.uk (80.249.99.120): 56 data bytes

64 bytes from 80.249.99.120: icmp_seq=0 ttl=119 time=18.962 ms

64 bytes from 80.249.99.120: icmp_seq=1 ttl=119 time=18.494 ms

64 bytes from 80.249.99.120: icmp_seq=2 ttl=119 time=19.586 ms

64 bytes from 80.249.99.120: icmp_seq=3 ttl=119 time=19.649 ms

64 bytes from 80.249.99.120: icmp_seq=4 ttl=119 time=20.108 ms

64 bytes from 80.249.99.120: icmp_seq=5 ttl=119 time=20.231 ms

64 bytes from 80.249.99.120: icmp_seq=6 ttl=119 time=19.027 ms

64 bytes from 80.249.99.120: icmp_seq=7 ttl=119 time=18.665 ms

64 bytes from 80.249.99.120: icmp_seq=8 ttl=119 time=19.206 ms

64 bytes from 80.249.99.120: icmp_seq=9 ttl=119 time=19.288 ms



--- www.adslguide.org.uk ping statistics ---

10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 18.494/19.322/20.231/0.545 ms

Ideally those are the kind of ping times you should be getting.. Although traceroutes would be a more beneficial diagnostic tool in this scenario, so you can see where the lag is creeping in and therefore know whose ear to chew off to get it sorted.

Edited by Basenji (Tue 17-Oct-06 22:34:03)

This is what I'm getting on a rural Demon connection.

ping dns1.xifos.net

Pinging dns1.xifos.net [80.77.240.31] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=56
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=56
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=56
Reply from 80.77.240.31: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=56



And...

ping www.adslguide.org.uk

Pinging www.adslguide.org.uk [80.249.99.120] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=119
Reply from 80.249.99.120: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=119