1432ms ping

MikeHunt79 · 16 Aug 2011 at 22:48

I seem to remember getting a lower ping on 56k...

Does anyone know what could cause this? I've tried rebooting the router and it doesn't seem to fix it...

Evoss · 16 Aug 2011 at 22:54

Somthing in your area could be up. See if is the same tomorrow and then give VM a call if it continues.

Emphacy · 16 Aug 2011 at 23:09

Just for comparison, we're on 20meg VM, but since I have gone over the download limit, they've capped me

That really is some bad ping you have there!

MikeHunt79 · 17 Aug 2011 at 00:12

Evoss said:
Somthing in your area could be up. See if is the same tomorrow and then give VM a call if it continues.

I think you may be right, that said now it's gone past midnight it seems to have fixed itself, very strange:

At least webpages load in a reasonable time now.

Thanks.

Emphacy · 17 Aug 2011 at 00:59

It looks like you have exceeded the maximum download limit or something so they've capped you. They turn traffic throttling off after midnight which explains the sudden change in bandwidth.

Evoss · 17 Aug 2011 at 01:03

^ probably this

.Griff. · 17 Aug 2011 at 02:33

Traffic throttling.. Yeah.. lol..

Did no-one notice he changed servers between tests?

Even the most draconian traffic throttling would not have such a dramatic effect on latency so the only obvious reasons are A, Specific test server issues and/or B, a problem with your LAN.

Emphacy · 17 Aug 2011 at 03:15

.Griff. said:
Traffic throttling.. Yeah.. lol..

Did no-one notice he changed servers between tests?

Even the most draconian traffic throttling would not have such a dramatic effect on latency so the only obvious reasons are A, Specific test server issues and/or B, a problem with your LAN.

No he didn't change server, Speedtest always chooses the server with the lowest ping, so if it was a server problem it would have chosen the second one first, and I guess LAN just decides it doesn't want to work properly until 12am?

KIA · 17 Aug 2011 at 11:14

ADSL or cable?