I'm not Virgin Phone , whats available ISP wise?

Ace Modder · 14 Sep 2007 at 18:24

Hey all

I'm on Virgin Phone line, with the Virgin 20Mbit net connection.

The pings have gone crappy since VM took over Telewest.

I'm thinking of changing my ISP (only ever have Cable type connection)

Is it possible to have one of these ASDL2 connections whilst on Vrigin Phone.

Most ISP's state that you have to have a BT line? Is this true?

Phemo · 14 Sep 2007 at 19:07

Yes you have to have a BT phone line. Virgin's phone lines are connected to their own exchanges whereas all ADSL equipment is in your local BT exchange.

Ace Modder · 14 Sep 2007 at 22:00

well thats just crap!

Robert · 15 Sep 2007 at 00:18

VM taking over hasn't changed your pings...

Ace Modder · 15 Sep 2007 at 11:16

My average ping used to be about 20-30 in wow, since VM is is around 60-120

Phemo · 15 Sep 2007 at 11:33

It's probably more your area rather than something Virgin have done:

Pinging jolt.co.uk [82.133.85.65] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=53
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=53
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=53
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=53

Robert · 15 Sep 2007 at 12:42

Pinging jolt.co.uk [82.133.85.65] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=52
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=52
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=52
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=52

Ping statistics for 82.133.85.65:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 17ms, Maximum = 20ms, Average = 18ms

Virgin Media 20mb.

Daegan · 15 Sep 2007 at 19:54

Ace Modder said:
My average ping used to be about 20-30 in wow, since VM is is around 60-120

I wouldn't give too much weight to your average pings in WoW, given the performance of Blizzard and Telia. In-game pings are hardly an ideal measure either, you're better off doing tracerts and pinging some other destinations to try and identify where any additional latency is being incurred.

Personally I've only ever seen a sub-100 ping in WoW during the day when the servers are relatively quiet. In the evenings I'm used to playing with an average ping of upwards of 150. Not that it makes any difference, it's an MMO, not CS.