Wot, More Pings?

[drummer]

Sorry about the thread title, but there are so many threads with "ping" in the title.

When IDNet upgraded their hardware a few months back, I was one of the many who experienced an incredible rise in pings for prolonged periods and often needed to reboot the router to to get them back to circa 12ms.  Early in May, rebooting the router no longer did the trick so I contacted support and the upshot was I moved from dsl4 to dw6.

Since then though my pings are now consistently 23-25ms, even though interleaving is still off.  Very odd, as my average ping has always been in the low teens, even when I was with Tiswas (today's pings have gone a bit bonkers, but I'm hoping this is a one-off).

Is it worth bothering support with this because something's not right, or should I just grin and bear it because I don't do online gaming?  I'm being upgraded to ADSL2+ this Friday and it'd be really disappointing if this affected my eventual connection speed.

Any thoughts, suggestions?

[Lance]

My initial thought is a degradation of the the quality of the line. My second thought is that as wbc pings are lower anyway, don't worry about it

fwiw, when my old linksys router was starting to fail, it increased pings by about 20ms.

[drummer]

Don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Might try firing up the D-link router tomorrow in order to eliminate hardware as the issue, although my Netgear is less than a year old and performs heroically when pings aren't high.

I hadn't realised until recently that high pings affect general web browsing.

Any thoughts as to why the average ping has doubled, just because I connect via a different pipe?

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[Rik]

None, Drummer, I asked IDNet about the issue yesterday, and they are not seeing any congestion at their end.