Sky Fibre is supposed to be coming to my exchange in September and they offer a 30 meg connection which I can get for an extra £10 per month. As I currently get 20 Meg thanks to living close to my exchange, is an extra 10 meg worth £10? Would you?
Increased download speed wont change your ping. Ping is mainly based on location and upload speed and whether your line is interleaved or fastpath.
Going from ADSL to fibre will improve ping.
Going from ADSL to fibre will improve ping.
No.
Fastpath ADSL has the same latency as fastpath VDSL2.
No.
Fastpath ADSL has the same latency as fastpath VDSL2.
My ping dropped significantly when I came from BE* to Infinity. Both fastpath.
C:\>ping www.bbc.co.uk
Pinging www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.244.69] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.244.69: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=50
Reply from 212.58.244.69: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=50
Reply from 212.58.244.69: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=50
Reply from 212.58.244.69: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=50
Ping statistics for 212.58.244.69:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 10ms, Maximum = 10ms, Average = 10ms
Yes but it's not the download speed that effects the ping.