Thanks for your input guys.
Almost everyone who has posted results apart from Jonathan90, has occasional spikes in lag, some worse that others.
(lucky git Jonathan90 and If I'm right in saying you're not to far from me. I'm in Kidderminster, I take it
wolv. is Wolverhampton?)
I know ping ICMP requested are low priority when it comes to network traffic, but why straight after doing ping tests. I can load a game and connected to server and find the results where near as damn it the same. With spikes every second or so, sometimes more often and sometimes higher in value.
I was getting 18-25ms all the time peak or off-peak upto mid October last year, but since then it gone down hill and especially bad since Christmas.
This is a ping test done by a kind Gent who his on Plusnet ADSL. Although high in ms value, but hardly any difference between min and max values, which is what you need when it comes to gaming (very stable)
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/34460977-post9.html
My current results at 20:00 (Footies on so very good results for me tonight, with only 1 above 25ms at 37ms).
E:\Documents and Settings\Bob>ping 82.133.85.65 -n 20
Pinging 82.133.85.65 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=51
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=51
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=51
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=51
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=51
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=51
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=51
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=51
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=51
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=51
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=51
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=51
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=51
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=51
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=51
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=37ms TTL=51
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=51
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=51
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=51
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=51
Ping statistics for 82.133.85.65:
Packets: Sent = 20, Received = 20, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 18ms, Maximum = 37ms, Average = 21ms
Does anyone know why almost everyone is getting these spikes?
Thanks again
Laters