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Old 09-07-2018, 15:10   #3
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Re: How does my Monitor Look? - What causes ping spikes?

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Originally Posted by ianch99 View Post
I think the jitter you refer to unavoidable due to the nature of VM's DOCSIS broadband FTTA (Fibre To The Area) design.

The base latency you have seem higher than most?. It is hard to tell but it is nearly 20ms? Don't forget this is from the TB Firebrick device that is probing your WAN ip address exposed by your SuperHub.

The acid test would be a latency/jitter test to one of your gaming servers, see what this is showing you. Here's 60 pings to Google's DNS server which is a good test as it is always close, in network terms:

Code:
Target Name: google-public-dns-a.google.com
         IP: 8.8.8.8
  Date/Time: 09/07/2018 13:42:34

 1    1 ms    0 ms    1 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    1 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    1 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    1 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    1 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    1 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    0 ms    1 ms  router.asus.com [192.168.0.1]
 2   *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       [-]
 3   11 ms   19 ms   14 ms    9 ms    9 ms   30 ms   12 ms    9 ms   24 ms   11 ms    9 ms   10 ms   20 ms    9 ms    9 ms   10 ms   14 ms   10 ms    9 ms   10 ms    9 ms   11 ms    9 ms   15 ms   10 ms    9 ms   10 ms   11 ms   10 ms    8 ms   12 ms   10 ms   10 ms   10 ms   10 ms    9 ms   15 ms    8 ms    9 ms   18 ms    9 ms   11 ms   13 ms   10 ms   12 ms   11 ms    9 ms   10 ms   10 ms    9 ms    9 ms    9 ms    9 ms   19 ms   11 ms   10 ms    9 ms    9 ms    9 ms   12 ms  sotn-core-2a-xe-023-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.255.45.101]
 4   *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       [-]
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 6   18 ms   17 ms   16 ms   17 ms   25 ms   16 ms   21 ms   17 ms   17 ms   16 ms   17 ms   17 ms   16 ms   17 ms   17 ms   16 ms   22 ms   17 ms   18 ms   16 ms   17 ms   32 ms   17 ms   17 ms   16 ms   16 ms   18 ms   18 ms   16 ms   17 ms   17 ms   16 ms   16 ms   18 ms   16 ms   17 ms   17 ms   17 ms   16 ms   16 ms   16 ms   17 ms   16 ms   16 ms   16 ms   17 ms   17 ms   16 ms   16 ms   17 ms   24 ms   17 ms   18 ms   16 ms   16 ms   17 ms   16 ms   17 ms   17 ms   16 ms  eislou2-ic-1-ae3-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.254.85.145]
 7   19 ms   20 ms   19 ms   20 ms   20 ms   20 ms   22 ms   20 ms   20 ms   23 ms   20 ms   20 ms   20 ms   20 ms   19 ms   21 ms   20 ms   21 ms   20 ms   19 ms   20 ms   22 ms   21 ms   22 ms   20 ms   21 ms   20 ms   20 ms   19 ms   20 ms   20 ms   20 ms   20 ms   24 ms   20 ms   21 ms   19 ms   19 ms   19 ms   20 ms   21 ms   21 ms   21 ms   19 ms   32 ms   20 ms   21 ms   21 ms   22 ms   20 ms   21 ms   24 ms   20 ms   23 ms   20 ms   19 ms   19 ms   20 ms   21 ms   20 ms  6-14-250-212.static.virginm.net [212.250.14.6]
 8   *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       *       [-]
 9   23 ms   22 ms   22 ms   22 ms   22 ms   22 ms   24 ms   21 ms   22 ms   22 ms   21 ms   25 ms   22 ms   22 ms   22 ms   22 ms   22 ms   21 ms   22 ms   23 ms   22 ms   23 ms   22 ms   25 ms   22 ms   23 ms   22 ms   22 ms   22 ms   22 ms   22 ms   22 ms   32 ms   26 ms   22 ms   22 ms   22 ms   21 ms   22 ms   22 ms   22 ms   22 ms   22 ms   21 ms   23 ms   24 ms   22 ms   21 ms   22 ms   23 ms   23 ms   24 ms   26 ms   21 ms   22 ms   21 ms   25 ms   22 ms   22 ms   22 ms  [216.239.56.194]
10   19 ms   20 ms   18 ms   20 ms   23 ms   20 ms   19 ms   21 ms   19 ms   36 ms   19 ms   20 ms   20 ms   20 ms   19 ms   19 ms   19 ms   20 ms   19 ms   23 ms   23 ms   19 ms   18 ms   23 ms   19 ms   19 ms   20 ms   20 ms   19 ms   19 ms   26 ms   20 ms   31 ms   23 ms   19 ms   19 ms   20 ms   20 ms   20 ms   18 ms   23 ms   19 ms   20 ms   28 ms   22 ms   21 ms   20 ms   19 ms   19 ms   20 ms   20 ms   19 ms   29 ms   19 ms   19 ms   19 ms   19 ms   19 ms   21 ms   22 ms  [108.170.230.165]
11   23 ms   17 ms   19 ms   18 ms   17 ms   17 ms   20 ms   17 ms   17 ms   17 ms   17 ms   17 ms   17 ms   17 ms   18 ms   17 ms   17 ms   17 ms   17 ms   17 ms   17 ms   18 ms   18 ms   17 ms   17 ms   17 ms   17 ms   17 ms   17 ms   17 ms   17 ms   17 ms   17 ms   18 ms   17 ms   21 ms   18 ms   18 ms   17 ms   21 ms   17 ms   16 ms   17 ms   17 ms   17 ms   28 ms   17 ms   18 ms   17 ms   17 ms   17 ms   17 ms   17 ms   17 ms   19 ms   17 ms   17 ms   17 ms   17 ms   17 ms  google-public-dns-a.google.com [8.8.8.8]
For comparison, here's my TBB graph:


Yes the base is showing as 20ms.

Even when I ping bbc.co.uk via cmd on my PC,

I get

18ms
19ms
28ms
26ms
16ms

Or could be any combination however it nearly always starts off low before going up 50-100%

What amount of jitter is acceptable?

Could it be the severs?

When I use Speedtest it says my jitter is 1.1ms but within games and pinging via cmd - I never get a consistent result ...

How do I do the google dns ping check?

And could power levels affect ping?
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