I don't think I can even begin to explain this well enough but here goes. I literally have no idea what can be going on.
ISP is BT on Fibre 2. Been using a Billion 8800NL with no problems but the wireless on it was not strong enough to feed a Smart TV to the point YouTube would not load up (can't blame it it's basically in another house).
When I renewed the contract with BT a router was supplied so I decided to try it. YouTube was now really great and streaming 1440p content I thought to myself, job done as 1440p is way better than anything previously done.
My real problem started when I loaded up Overwatch. A shock to see my pings were at 200ms to Europe servers. Maybe Blizzard issue I thought. This is when things got super interesting. I ran a command prompt and used my trusty "ping bbc.co.uk -t" command. I expected seeing values such as "150ms" but nope it was 17ms. It was equal to my Billion router when pinging bbc.
This is when it just got silly. I used speedtest.net and the pings there were again over 170ms. I tested this on both wireless and wired with the exact same results.
Switched back to the Billion. Overwatch was back to its usual 50ms or so and the speedtest.net page was showing 17ms to the same exact server. Switching routers a lot seems to have lowered my synch rate though but I can live with that: https://i.imgur.com/Estknzz.png
Does anyone have any idea what is going on with this BT router to have such better wireless performance but then somehow be giving such bad pings? It's not even as if it's false ping readings either as I can feel the difference when playing Overwatch, stuff isn't snappy as it used to be. How can it have such good pings to bbc.co.uk? Is there some like super weird peering issue going on with the BT router?
Thanks if anyone has any idea on how to get this BT router up to my Billion's pings on both speedtest and Overwatch.
ISP is BT on Fibre 2. Been using a Billion 8800NL with no problems but the wireless on it was not strong enough to feed a Smart TV to the point YouTube would not load up (can't blame it it's basically in another house).
When I renewed the contract with BT a router was supplied so I decided to try it. YouTube was now really great and streaming 1440p content I thought to myself, job done as 1440p is way better than anything previously done.
My real problem started when I loaded up Overwatch. A shock to see my pings were at 200ms to Europe servers. Maybe Blizzard issue I thought. This is when things got super interesting. I ran a command prompt and used my trusty "ping bbc.co.uk -t" command. I expected seeing values such as "150ms" but nope it was 17ms. It was equal to my Billion router when pinging bbc.
This is when it just got silly. I used speedtest.net and the pings there were again over 170ms. I tested this on both wireless and wired with the exact same results.
Switched back to the Billion. Overwatch was back to its usual 50ms or so and the speedtest.net page was showing 17ms to the same exact server. Switching routers a lot seems to have lowered my synch rate though but I can live with that: https://i.imgur.com/Estknzz.png
Does anyone have any idea what is going on with this BT router to have such better wireless performance but then somehow be giving such bad pings? It's not even as if it's false ping readings either as I can feel the difference when playing Overwatch, stuff isn't snappy as it used to be. How can it have such good pings to bbc.co.uk? Is there some like super weird peering issue going on with the BT router?
Thanks if anyone has any idea on how to get this BT router up to my Billion's pings on both speedtest and Overwatch.