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  #3128337 15-Sep-2023 20:45
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yes but how can a fibre back-haul tower have a latency of 19ms over 5g mobile data and then the next day its straight up to 60ms over 5g. There has got to be something adding latency??




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  #3128338 15-Sep-2023 20:47
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My point still stands if you don't have a SLA contract for latency it is still best effort

 

 

 

 

Yeah I guess. Its still kinda stupid that it can increase for a whole region in one day though.


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  #3128339 15-Sep-2023 20:48
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I wouldn't consider a 50ms latency variation excessive over that technology and distance. There's likely a sensible reason too, like extra load on a given cell site from addional users or someone hammering repeated speedtests. Radio bandwidth is a finite and shared resource so any change in the usage by any user or group of users can have an impact on every other user.




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  #3128340 15-Sep-2023 20:51
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I wouldn't consider a 50ms latency variation excessive over that technology and distance. There's likely a sensible reason too, like extra load on a given cell site from addional users or someone hammering repeated speedtests. Radio bandwidth is a finite and shared resource so any change in the usage by any user or group of users can have an impact on every other user.

 

 

 

 

Yeah, well I'm thinking of switching to spark now bc their latency is 15ms in Taranaki on 5g 🤷


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  #3128342 15-Sep-2023 20:59
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Latency is not just a number. It's a measure of the time take for the signal to travel between two specific discreet points. Unless those are the same points then you can't really compare one with the other.


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  #3128343 15-Sep-2023 21:02
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Latency is not just a number. It's a measure of the time take for the signal to travel between two specific discreet points. Unless those are the same points then you can't really compare one with the other.

 

 

 

 

they are the same points. I am on the same tower using the same phone in the same place connecting to the same server


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  #3128344 15-Sep-2023 21:04
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If gaming and latency are soooo important to you why are you not connected to a fibre connection?


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  #3128345 15-Sep-2023 21:05
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stevenroach:

 

RunningMan:

 

I wouldn't consider a 50ms latency variation excessive over that technology and distance. There's likely a sensible reason too, like extra load on a given cell site from addional users or someone hammering repeated speedtests. Radio bandwidth is a finite and shared resource so any change in the usage by any user or group of users can have an impact on every other user.

 

 

Yeah, well I'm thinking of switching to spark now bc their latency is 15ms in Taranaki on 5g 🤷

 

 

Is the gaming server located in Taranaki?


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  #3128346 15-Sep-2023 21:05
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If gaming and latency are soooo important to you why are you not connected to a fibre connection?

 

 

because I dont have fibre at mine yet so I rely on 5G


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  #3128361 15-Sep-2023 22:06
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Why would they "add latency to make it suck for everyone"? That's a surefire way to lose your customer base if accurate (which it isn't).


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  #3128362 15-Sep-2023 22:11
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Why would they "add latency to make it suck for everyone"? That's a surefire way to lose your customer base if accurate (which it isn't).

 

 

Just the statement alone is pure madness! How anyone could even come up with this is beyond me!


 
 
 
 

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  #3128367 15-Sep-2023 22:33
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29MS initial unloaded is pretty good considering all mobile traffic goes through Auckland and where I sit in my Christchurch home I'm getting 39MS. That download ping time under full load is pretty evident of high tower load.

 

RunningMan:

 

I wouldn't consider a 50ms latency variation excessive over that technology and distance. There's likely a sensible reason too, like extra load on a given cell site from addional users or someone hammering repeated speedtests. Radio bandwidth is a finite and shared resource so any change in the usage by any user or group of users can have an impact on every other user.

 



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  #3128375 16-Sep-2023 00:01
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29MS initial unloaded is pretty good considering all mobile traffic goes through Auckland and where I sit in my Christchurch home I'm getting 39MS. That download ping time under full load is pretty evident of high tower load.

 

 

 

OP is testing to Auckland servers so if all mobile traffic is exchanged there anyway then there is no tromboning of traffic involved. Also it looks to me it's the uplink capacity that has dropped off so it's possible there is increase in latency on the forward path contributing to overall increase in round trip latency. 

 

 


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  #3135598 27-Sep-2023 18:05
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I'm getting 160ms to Google's Sydney datacenter on UFB

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  #3135625 27-Sep-2023 20:11
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Is 60ms vs 30ms measurably noticeable? I ask as someone who grew up playing CS 1.0 through 1.6 on dialup..


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