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Slow Ping Time

McTed
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Registered: ‎08-04-2011

Slow Ping Time

Getting a bit frustrated here.
Over the last few days I've been experiencing really slow ping time - currently averaging about 600ms but anything up to 2500ms.
I reported it and had an engineer come, but because I said in my report that the line wasn't clear, it got logged as a phone fault and he wasn't allowed to do any broadband type tests.  The line comes up as clear but I've still got the problem. Being a bit intermittent I wasn't able to demonstrate it to him either.
Is there anything that can be tested remotely or do I need to go through the whole reporting process yet again (seem to have to do this once a year)?
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LinnPlusnet
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Re: Slow Ping Time

Hi McTed,
Can you plug you phone into the test socket on it's own and then check if there's any noise on the line? If you do have a noisy line then this will take precedence over your speeds being low. As the broadband is provided on the phone line, if there's a fault on the phone line itself then this will most likely be the reason for the problems you're experiencing with your broadband.
McTed
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Registered: ‎08-04-2011

Re: Slow Ping Time

I thought it was noisy as it's not the clearest of lines, but the engineer said it was fine.  Nice bloke but he said he wasn't allowed to investigate the broadband as it had been registered as a phone fault.  Sad
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McTed
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Re: Slow Ping Time

I'm generating one of those ThinkBroadBand graphs to demonstrate the problem as I need to demonstrate that I really am suffering!
LinnPlusnet
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Re: Slow Ping Time

Can you perform a silent line test by dialing 17070 and then select Option 2?
McTed
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Re: Slow Ping Time

Linn,  thanks for your prompt response, but you seem to be ignoring the fact that I said I've had an OpenReach engineer test the phone line this morning and find no fault with it.
This is what I'm suffering from:
PING www.bbc.net.uk (212.58.246.91): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 212.58.246.91: icmp_seq=0 ttl=54 time=920.648 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.246.91: icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=841.184 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
64 bytes from 212.58.246.91: icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=1004.616 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.246.91: icmp_seq=3 ttl=54 time=989.446 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.246.91: icmp_seq=4 ttl=54 time=910.093 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.246.91: icmp_seq=5 ttl=54 time=830.510 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.246.91: icmp_seq=6 ttl=54 time=443.667 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.246.91: icmp_seq=7 ttl=54 time=671.287 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.246.91: icmp_seq=8 ttl=54 time=58.508 ms
LinnPlusnet
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Re: Slow Ping Time

Thank you for providing that information.
I'm sorry you feel that I'm ignoring what you've advised regarding the engineers visit.
Can you still perform the test so that we can ensure that you can't hear any noise on the line? We need to exhaust every avenue so that if we raise this to our suppliers we can confirm that this test has been performed if needed.
McTed
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Registered: ‎08-04-2011

Re: Slow Ping Time

The engineer performed a quiet line test and a multitude of other tests and reported no fault with the line.
Here's a link to a external monitoring of my connection:
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/share/3f5dd7f50d1a9f4f241edc7e7bd88f96.html
LinnPlusnet
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Re: Slow Ping Time

Okay, can you go ahead and raise a broadband fault and ensure that it's not closed so that it gives our Faults team a chance to investigate this for you?
Please raise this here: http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/bbfaults/
McTed
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Re: Slow Ping Time

ok. thx.
AndyH
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Re: Slow Ping Time

Can you post your router stats (line attenuation/errors etc.)? They will be in the admin page of your router.
McTed
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Re: Slow Ping Time

System Up Time 06:19:01
Port Status TxPkts RxPkts Collisions Tx B/s Rx B/s Up Time
WAN PPPoA 1299025 1372250 0 37926 50890 06:18:05
LAN 10M/100M 801599 690318 0 41847 3686 06:18:57
WLAN 11M/54M 619049 710258 0 10384 35692 06:18:47
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 13051 kbps 445 kbps
Line Attenuation 35 db 9.5 db
Noise Margin 6 db 23 db