FTTP pings

faceman123 · 19 Apr 2019 at 15:05

Hi folks, just wanted to check what sort of pings everyone is getting with FTTP - I'm currently hovering around the 12ms range =\ ( expected it to be a lot lower) is this normal? installation was just yesterday, is there any Teething period with FTTP?

faceman123 · 19 Apr 2019 at 15:13

Zefan said:
Ping to where? I wouldn't expect my latency to be considerably lower with fibre than with a copper connection really.

bremen1874 said:
Pings to where?
FTTP with whom?

Edinburgh to
bbc.co.uk = 12ms
google.com = 13ms

BT FTTP ( openreach )

faceman123 · 19 Apr 2019 at 17:20

TJM said:
A round trip from Edinburgh to London at the speed of light and in a direct line would take about 4ms, so only losing 8ms to the routing and so on seems fine to me.

Yarp. I was on FTTC in central London and was pinging about 6ms to bbc.co.uk, etc., and now get 1ms on Hyperoptic. Taking the last mile of copper out of the equation doesn't do much for pings as 99% of the journey was already via fibre.

hi thanks for this - what does 8ms to routing mean? (noob alert) do you mean the router my pc etc or ???

faceman123 · 19 Apr 2019 at 18:06

bremen1874 said:
The routing from you to the destination. Every hop will add a bit of latency.

Thanks, is there any way to influence this? - are isp's able to improve this? or do all connections essentially take the same route

faceman123 · 20 Apr 2019 at 11:30

zipp0r said:
you'll notice it in FPS games and webpage links will be near instant. thats about it.

ever so slighlty snapier but overall literally minimal difference between FTTC (solid 80mb ) and FTTP 330 =\. Disappointed tbh.