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St3
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800 ping tonight shocking

Ive only been with plusnet 7 days now up to tonight my online gaming has been fine but tonight ive had major lag and 811 pings. Ive just had house rewired all cables and bt sockets are new.... before u ask ;E  Ive a new pc and new router,.
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Gus
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Re: 800 ping tonight shocking

Pings to where?  I know that there was a power outage in USA this morning that affected some of the major server farms, so anything hosted on eastern coast in US will be laggy till the congestion is cleared
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St3
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Re: 800 ping tonight shocking

in battlefield 3 i was on a uk hosted server and i ping normally at 21ms, only i out of 15 others could not move and when i checked ping it read 811ms. its only affected me.
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Re: 800 ping tonight shocking

Hi ukste,
If you've been with us for 7 days, your line will still be in the 10 training period. If you give it 3 more days, your line should have settled down.
If you've got any further issues after that, be sure to let us know and we'll look into it for you Smiley
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Re: 800 ping tonight shocking

Hi ukste, i was on BF3 severs last night but my ping was only 20ish never any higher ,  have you any background program's running ?  AV updates ? or windows update on ?
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St3
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Re: 800 ping tonight shocking

na none mate, ive been online gaming a few years now so those were first things i ckecked for Wink
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Re: 800 ping tonight shocking

one other thing to try is to Disable UPNP on your router , if things havent changed  Wink
what connection are you on ? fibre or copper
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St3
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Re: 800 ping tonight shocking

im not on fibre so i must be on copper Wink it could well be the 10 training period today is my 10th day, pings have been back to normal and speeds are normal, ive had 3 connections drops but i guess this might be part of the training period .
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Re: 800 ping tonight shocking

Looking at your connection, it look's like it has settled down. It's just a case of monitoring it now to see how it goes.
Let me know if you have any issues with your connection.
St3
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Re: 800 ping tonight shocking

Im happy with current test ive just ran.
But that test was futher away, when i run a speedtest to a server which is an hours drive from me i get this...

I thought if i ran a speedtest with a server closer to me, my speed would be higher and my ping lower as they aint travelling as far. But when i run speedtest to locations down south eg london areas, my ping is much lower.
just out of intrest is this normal?
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Re: 800 ping tonight shocking

Although it's closer to your premises, it's actually further away from the equipment your connection terminates on. For a ping to that Carlisle server the traffic has to go to London and then back to Carlisle, so it's right that the ping is higher.
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St3
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Re: 800 ping tonight shocking

is the 35 ping about right for my connection and distance? As im an online gamer having a lower ping can sometimes be just as important as having a good speed.
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Re: 800 ping tonight shocking

@ ukste, far better to ping from a Windows command prompt (or equivalent in other OSs), I usually use ping bbc.co.uk as that indicates what you get to the real world beyond the PlusNet network but close enough to the London datacentres that it isn't normally too affected by other factors.  Speedtest.net pings are not always that reliable.
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Re: 800 ping tonight shocking

35ms ping is a good ping. 
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Re: 800 ping tonight shocking

This is what i get from Yorkshire  Wink

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