Manchester gateway - but in a good way

On the Chester exchange, on Zen's backhaul, you'd be connected to London, with about 13ms latency to the first hop.
If you got the dreaded Manchester gateway when you connected, you'd get about 20ms to the first hop 😱

However, in the last couple of weeks, this seems to have changed, and now it appears that the backhaul is connected to Zen in Manchester (much closer) and on the Manchester gateway, I now have a first hop latency of 5ms!

So now I can break out to the internet more locally. This has halved my latency on my work VPN for instance, which is very nice.

So, a rare good news story about the Manchester gateway. Just thought I'd put it out there 🤣

Connection isnt looking great in your sig, fair amount of packet loss, how is it performing?

No obvserved packet loss. That's the fritzbox dropping the pings. Apparently a well known thing.

The regular yellow spikes are when the samknows box is running tests. The fritzbox will prioritise that traffic over replying to pings.

The samknows box is showing 0.01% packet loss for the week. I'm happy to round that down to 0.

Samknows also shows the drop in latency (well, a 3ms drop). Speed seems unaffected (it was at the expected level before this change).

Edited by FakeJake (Tue 03-Sep-24 14:04:07)

Fair enough, and yeah I assumed the spikes were some kind of automated speedtest.