Ping Times on IrishBroadBand Breeze 3 mb up/down

Hank Scorpio

think of getting this, any good for gaming?

Cheers.

barnicles

Look at the "Broadband Speed Test Thread"

Hank Scorpio

speedtest.net isnt a reliable ping tester
not interested in download speeds , ping only.

barnicles

LOOk thru the speedtesst tread and find someone with breeze
PM them and ask them to do this
Go Start --> Run
Type "cmd" and press enter
When the command prompt opens type in this "ping boards.ie" or replace boards.ie with summat else

Hank Scorpio

barnicles wrote: »

LOOk thru the speedtesst tread and find someone with breeze
PM them and ask them to do this
Go Start --> Run
Type "cmd" and press enter
When the command prompt opens type in this "ping boards.ie" or replace boards.ie with summat else

i no how the ping command works
i just wanted some input from a few IBB users about the stability of their pings

Giblet

Absolutely woeful, if you are planning on playing games, stay away.

Would spike from 30 to 400 with high PL.

gerryo

The Hitcher wrote: »

Absolutely woeful, if you are planning on playing games, stay away.

Would spike from 30 to 400 with high PL.

+1

Superhands

would be interested in hearing others opinions on this too

for me its a choice between eircom 2mb (256k upload) or breeze 3mb / 3mb

would have thought breeze would give me better pings though quite alarmed by a couple fo the comments on this thread

i'm in south dublin (cabinteely / loughlinstown)

what advice would people give me ?

Irishpimpdude

Heres my ping to boards...

Pinging boards.ie [89.234.66.107] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=60
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=60
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=60
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=60

Ping statistics for 89.234.66.107:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 7ms, Maximum = 12ms, Average = 8ms

Rattlehead_ie

Ping statistics for 89.234.66.107:
Packets: Sent = 59, Received = 59, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 11ms, Maximum = 16ms, Average = 12ms


Smooth as.. Even pretty good for VOIP (no jitter)

gerryo

Superhands wrote: »

would have thought breeze would give me better pings though quite alarmed by a couple fo the comments on this thread

i'm in south dublin (cabinteely / loughlinstown)

what advice would people give me ?

My Breeze pings to google.ie vary from (never less than) 60mS to over (but not very often) 200 mS. It depends on lots of factors, location, distance from the high site, how busy it is & the network dropping or giving less priority to ICMP traffic if congestion occurs (read this on boards - my own testing appears to confirm it).

I would not depend on pings to judge the connection, use a speed tester or bandwidth calculator instead.
However, if you are a serious online gamer, Breeze might not work as well as DSL. You need more feedback from users in your area.

jesus_thats_gre

Been gaming on the 3MB Breeze service for about 3 years now. I can't really fault them at all. Am based in Leopardstown/Sanyford. Was on the Ballyogan high site but on the Beacon one now.