Whats your ping?

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Anbo

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#62499 8-Jun-2010 18:53

Yesterday, i was having ping problems, this has since been resolved but it made me wonder what kind of ping everyone else gets?

Paste your pings below :) , test telecom.co.nz, this is what i used

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#339494 8-Jun-2010 19:11

Do you have interleaving turned off?

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#339498 8-Jun-2010 19:32

40ms is that good?

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#339501 8-Jun-2010 19:35

From my Netscreen 5GT at home, through our Dynlink Modem (in half-bridge mode) out our TelstraClear ADSL2+ connection. Interleaving turned on.

Pretty happy with a 31ms average.

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#339502 8-Jun-2010 19:38

Im getting roughly 59 ms ping on average.

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#339506 8-Jun-2010 19:42

c71931f: Average = 33ms. Dunno if that's good or bad ...

That's pretty good, yup.
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#339508 8-Jun-2010 19:43

For ADSL:

With interleaving turned off, you can get around 9ms to an NZ server.

With interleaving on at full, around 55ms is normal for an NZ sever.

International pings will obviously be higher.

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#339538 8-Jun-2010 21:00

Teathered through my Android phone, it doesn't seem to like the cold + the rain here :( (usually get 4bars of 3G Signal, only got 1 at the moment)

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#339540 8-Jun-2010 21:06

simon14:
With interleaving turned off, you can get around 9ms to an NZ server.
With interleaving on at full, around 55ms is normal for an NZ sever.

Wow! I knew there was a difference but not that much! I heard interleaving is for error correction, and my line is rather bad (42.0 dB down / 25.0 dB up). If I had it turned off would it decrease speeds or anything?

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#339548 8-Jun-2010 21:22

--- telecom.co.nz ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 8997ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 300.400/321.369/380.638/23.508 ms

From Telehouse East, London

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#339593 8-Jun-2010 22:26

I remember the good old days of when 100ms was acceptable... 9ms!

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#339620 8-Jun-2010 23:56

michaelmurfy: Teathered through my Android phone, it doesn't seem to like the cold + the rain here :( (usually get 4bars of 3G Signal, only got 1 at the moment)

Make sure you Ctrl-C those pings rather than Ctrl-Z otherwise it'll leave it to be resumed later.

If you use Ctrl-C you'll get a nice summary at the end aswell since its ending.

25ms here.

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#339623 9-Jun-2010 00:13

MacBook Pro using Vodafone in Manukau.

Ping has started…

PING telecom.co.nz (146.171.18.242): 56 data bytes

64 bytes from 146.171.18.242: icmp_seq=0 ttl=119 time=30.847 ms

64 bytes from 146.171.18.242: icmp_seq=1 ttl=119 time=30.378 ms

64 bytes from 146.171.18.242: icmp_seq=2 ttl=119 time=29.986 ms

64 bytes from 146.171.18.242: icmp_seq=3 ttl=119 time=30.388 ms

64 bytes from 146.171.18.242: icmp_seq=4 ttl=119 time=29.659 ms

64 bytes from 146.171.18.242: icmp_seq=5 ttl=119 time=30.826 ms

64 bytes from 146.171.18.242: icmp_seq=6 ttl=119 time=32.809 ms

64 bytes from 146.171.18.242: icmp_seq=7 ttl=119 time=30.708 ms

64 bytes from 146.171.18.242: icmp_seq=8 ttl=119 time=30.440 ms

64 bytes from 146.171.18.242: icmp_seq=9 ttl=119 time=30.268 ms

--- telecom.co.nz ping statistics ---

10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 29.659/30.631/32.809/0.805 ms

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#339652 9-Jun-2010 03:10

I would have to have my connection idle to do it properly, which is very rare when I am at the computer, and it is free off peak at the moment,

This is it with my line "maxed out" as much as slingshots lameness will allow for:

C:\Users\Richard>ping telecom.co.nz -n 40

Pinging telecom.co.nz [146.171.18.242] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=95ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=114ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=79ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=74ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=96ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=105ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=129ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=70ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=138ms TTL=119
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=119

Ping statistics for 146.171.18.242:
Packets: Sent = 40, Received = 40, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 9ms, Maximum = 138ms, Average = 37ms

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rygrass

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#339674 9-Jun-2010 07:53

interleaving turned off

Pinging telecom.co.nz [146.171.18.242] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=121
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=121
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=121
Reply from 146.171.18.242: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=121

Ping statistics for 146.171.18.242:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 14ms, Maximum = 15ms, Average = 14ms

Not bad

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#339717 9-Jun-2010 10:48

Wow everyone... You should all understand that there are several major contributors to the observed latency when you ping telecom.co.nz and the results will vary hugely while possibly not indicating anything bad...

1) telecom.co.nz is located in Auckland. if you ping from Auckland (with interleaving off) would can expect 8-12ms ping times assuming everything else is good. If you're in Christchurch for example, it will be much more - possibly over 30ms with interleaving off.

2) Interleaving. The default interleaving for most customers adds about 30ms of latency so even in Auckland you may get (say) 42ms and this could still be considered a perfect connection.

3) Are you on a wireless router? wireless can (but won't always) introduce variability due to magic goblins.

4) Is your line being heavily used? If you are downloading at line speed, or if your upstream is saturated, you will get massive ping variability. Even if you're not downloading at maxing out your line, you may get a small increase in latency and variability.

5) Finally, there's a chance there is is congestion somewhere on the network, or even at the test server (www.telecom.co.nz isn't ever genuinely congested as far as I am aware though)...

The point is that most connections can't be compared without a bit more info being shared about the location, time, line details etc involved in the test.

Cheers - N

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