Hi I recently moved rooms in the house and since I dont have a long enough cable wire from my virgin media socket I had to settle with a long ethernet cable 18 or 15m i think and ive noticed a lot lately that my ping is high im not sure if its my PC setup or if its just my crap net. thanks in advance
ethernet question related to gaming
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Move the pc closer to the router to try it first. But there really should not be any ping issues with that length of cable. Unless its a dodgy cable. You can test it by opening up a CMD window and typing
PING (Your router IP - probably 192.168.100.1 if its virgin although its probably written on the superhub or router)
PING (Your router IP - probably 192.168.100.1 if its virgin although its probably written on the superhub or router)
That length of cable shouldn't pose a problem to your online gaming ping. I am currently running a 20-25m cat 5e ethernet cable from my router to my PC on the floor above and average pings between 20-40ms.
What ISP are you with?
What ISP are you with?
thats what I always thought but I wasnt sure if it applied to cable internet as i used to be with adsl when I lived in my old house
no settings have been changed on my pc i have a ethernet wire into my router just like I always have and the router never gets messed about only logged in to check the attached devices and change the p/w its hard to tell as I run speedtests and the ping isnt a joke or anything
Considering that signal is travelling at 200,000,000 metres per second in the first place, a 15m cable isn't going to introduce any amount of noticeable lag.
You've got Virgin Media? It's your crap net 
When I was with them they had higher pings than most other providers to a majority of the sites/servers.
They only focus on speed as that's what sells.
Do you know what your pings were before to a certain server?
That post doesn't make sense...
If you can tell the difference between the cables, then it does make a difference? Or was that a typo to say can't tell the difference.
Either way 15m or even 100m of CAT cable won't add much to your ping. If it's degraded or a bad cable it'd affect the throughput though. Adding a device in between you and the router/modem is what increases the ping a bit but even then that's still a little amount as well.
When I was with them they had higher pings than most other providers to a majority of the sites/servers.
They only focus on speed as that's what sells.
Do you know what your pings were before to a certain server?
That post doesn't make sense...
If you can tell the difference between the cables, then it does make a difference? Or was that a typo to say can't tell the difference.
Either way 15m or even 100m of CAT cable won't add much to your ping. If it's degraded or a bad cable it'd affect the throughput though. Adding a device in between you and the router/modem is what increases the ping a bit but even then that's still a little amount as well.
1ms thats fine, no ping issues there. Does this happen any time of the day or night? You could try turning the router / modem off, leave it for half an hour, then back on. What modem / router do you have? What is connected to it?
i use to steal my internet from my dads house when i lived a few doors away from him ran a 50m cat5 down the gardens, neighbours didn't mind luckily, ping was spot on with that, so gotta be something else, unless the ethernet cable is dodgy
ran a 50m cat5 down the gardens, neighbours didn't mind luckily, ping was spot on with that, so gotta be something else, unless the ethernet cable is dodgyRubbish, there will be zero notable difference in latency over a 15-18M cable unless the cable is faulty.
As someone else pointed out, the signals traveling down an ethernet cable are moving at quite a pace ~the speed of light. It would take a very long cable indeed before you notice any change in ping. In fact, you'd lose the connection before ping was affected.