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Originally Posted by MaverickJesus
Could FTTC deliver less than 10ms pings consistently from Swansea to (say) London? I'm not convinced. It would be significantly better than VM though, one would imagine.
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Around or slightly under 10ms, yes. Significantly lower, no.
A good network will get data from London to Swansea in about 4-6ms. The latency of the FTTC hop itself is <4.7ms, so add that together you'd get <8.7ms ping in a best-case scenario. Don't have solid numbers for BT Infinity but last I checked Swansea was reached in ~5.5ms which plus the FTTC hop would give you a consistent ~10ms exactly.
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Originally Posted by boroboi
Well like Qasi said, you aren't going to get pings that low on game servers with any traditional ISP. (Virgin or DSL based isp on the BT network)
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Actually BT do pretty well, and VM do too when routing is direct. North of the border (i.e. Scotland) both give about as low a latency as is going to happen on any ISP, mainly due to there being very little they can screw up this far north, there's just no other way for data to go.
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Originally Posted by craigj2k12
Be* fastpath used to give low results like this but they seem to have gone down the majorty route of overselling nowadays
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Be* have started rebuilding their entire network from scratch. Hopefully this means we'll see improvements...