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Bad pings...

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  • 19-08-2009 7:12pm
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    joe123
    Registered Users Posts: 6,521 ✭✭✭


    The last while ive been getting bad ping speeds and was just wondering whats causing it and what can I do to help improve it?

    Im on eircom 3mb bb. Recently switched to the open dns thinking it would help improve it and at times it does when im back to 50ms.

    On average though its between 360ms-400ms.


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    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,299 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    joe123 wrote: »
    The last while ive been getting bad ping speeds and was just wondering whats causing it and what can I do to help improve it?

    Im on eircom 3mb bb. Recently switched to the open dns thinking it would help improve it and at times it does when im back to 50ms.

    On average though its between 360ms-400ms.

    OpenDNS, or any other DNS server would have no bearing on your pings. What are you pinging anyway?


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    joe123
    Registered Users Posts: 6,521 ✭✭✭joe123


    Spear wrote: »
    OpenDNS, or any other DNS server would have no bearing on your pings. What are you pinging anyway?

    pinged boards, liverpool fc website, google....


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    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,299 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    joe123 wrote: »
    pinged boards, liverpool fc website, google....

    Google is dynamically load and geo balanced by the Akamai DNS, it's not reliable for such purposes. Show the full results of pings to boards and LFC's site. Also get the line stats from your router as per the sticky.


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