High pings on 1mb package

Pokes

Hi all. Just got my broadband installed last week. Its only the 1mb eircom package as im on the amber program apparently. Just wondering is anyone else seeing over 50ms pings to ireland and over 70ms to UK Servers ? I know my line stats arent great at all , but ive input them into this calc http://212.23.23.177/ADSL/default.aspx and my line is apparently capable of 3681Kbps :

noise margin downstream: 21 db
output power upstream: 15 db
attenuation downstream: 62 db

noise margin upstream: 15 db
output power downstream: 0 db
attenuation upstream: 31 db

The pings im getting although playable are a little high in my opinion, Ive done a bit of reading and apparently there was some problems with the b-ras in portlaoise, Does anyone know if this has been solved since ?

C:\Documents and Settings\Pokey>ping www.heanet.ie

Pinging samhain.heanet.ie [193.1.219.57] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 193.1.219.57: bytes=32 time=55ms TTL=57
Reply from 193.1.219.57: bytes=32 time=55ms TTL=57
Reply from 193.1.219.57: bytes=32 time=55ms TTL=57
Reply from 193.1.219.57: bytes=32 time=55ms TTL=57

Ping statistics for 193.1.219.57:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 55ms, Maximum = 55ms, Average = 55ms




C:\Documents and Settings\Pokey>tracert www.heanet.ie

Tracing route to samhain.heanet.ie [193.1.219.57]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 57 ms * * b-ras1.pgs.portlaoise.eircom.net [159.134.155.8]

3 54 ms 52 ms 53 ms 86.43.244.246
4 53 ms 52 ms 52 ms 86.43.244.153
5 52 ms 53 ms 55 ms te0-0-0-1-cr2-cwt.hea.net [193.242.111.16]
6 52 ms 55 ms 52 ms te5-1-blanch-sr1.services.hea.net [193.1.236.2]

7 54 ms 57 ms 55 ms samhain.heanet.ie [193.1.219.57]

Trace complete.



Ping to england is worse :

C:\Documents and Settings\Pokey>ping jolt.co.uk

Pinging jolt.co.uk [84.234.17.86] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 84.234.17.86: bytes=32 time=68ms TTL=123
Reply from 84.234.17.86: bytes=32 time=70ms TTL=123
Reply from 84.234.17.86: bytes=32 time=68ms TTL=123
Reply from 84.234.17.86: bytes=32 time=70ms TTL=123

Ping statistics for 84.234.17.86:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 68ms, Maximum = 70ms, Average = 69ms

I assume this higher than normal ping is due to interleaving ? Am I doomed to high pings as long as im with eircom ?

Hank Scorpio

Your attenuation downstream is pretty dire.

They`ve prolly put high interleaving on your phone line to combat that, hence the pings.