Anyone know how to reduce ping times in Opera

Wiggins · 6 Nov 2008 at 11:30

I have just installed Opera as I thought I would give it a bash.

The trouble is, when I test the ping times via Speedtest, I get very high latencies of around 217ms whereas in Firefox I have it down to 34ms.

Can I do any edits in Opera to drop the latency?

Ta.

Burnsy2023 · 6 Nov 2008 at 14:17

Surely the latency will be browser independant?

Wiggins · 6 Nov 2008 at 15:12

I'm not all clued up on this stuff.

It seems that the time it takes for Opera to receive the packets is slower than what Firefox takes.

I tried it with Safari & IE and get an average of 40-42ms.

:confused:

MarcLister · 6 Nov 2008 at 15:13

Burnsy2023 said:
Surely the latency will be browser independant?

My thoughts exactly.

OK so Firefox and Opera get different results but have you tried with IE as well? Could be your PC or network issues.

Wiggins · 6 Nov 2008 at 15:33

I tweaked the MTU settings and got better results with all browsers apart from Opera again.

The network is run via Homeplugs and the latency is 1ms from pc to router so the network seems fine.

Sarduk · 6 Nov 2008 at 15:34

Does it really matter?

malef!c · 6 Nov 2008 at 18:53

Never heard of that much difference between browsers and I agree that it shouldn't matter what browser you use.

In Opera are their proxies configured at all ?

LeperousDust · 6 Nov 2008 at 19:20

Are you using speedtest for these ping times? My best guess out of nowhere is speedtest uses flash which isn't guessing things properly with opera. To find out your actual ping use ping in the command prompt.