Interleaving to FastPath

studentjoe

Hey Everyone,

This is my first post on here and I need some advice,

I'm a customer with vodafone broadband, I'm on their ''vodafone at home up to 8mb'' package,

Now I have always suffered high pings, generally around 100ms to the dublin server on speedtest.net, (I live in Limerick) Recently I have been trying to get those reduced what with the release of Black Ops coming up.

I have contacted vodafone support, they reduced my speed to 6mb, and put me on 'low interleaving' this has helped a little, I now get 90ms ping to the dublin server :P. I get 70ms ping to london and galway, with 80ms to Limerick.

I have followed their instructions for manually assigning DNS, and there are splitters on the phone lines, and all that jazz,

now here is what I would like some help with, I have requested to be put on FastPath, but vodafone say I will need my speed further reduced for this, Is this really necessary? Here are my line stats copied straight from the router and I'm not too sure what to make of them.

Line Mode G.DMT Latency Type Interleave Line Up Time 00:11:48:19 Line Coding Trellis On

Statistics Downstream Upstream Line Rate 6144 Kbps 512 Kbps Noise Margin 20.2 dB 14.0 dB Line Attenuation 6.0 dB 3.0 dB Output Power -0.1 dBm -1.6 dBm

Are they good or bad, or suitable for FastPath without a reduction in speed?

I would much rather be put on FastPath to have my ping times reduced as low as possible.

My router's couldnt be the source of the high pings because i have ports opened and the firewall is turned off, and my xbox is in the DMZ, just to be on the safe side.

Any help from you would be much appreciated,
Thanks
Joe

stuff.hunter

crappy router can be a source of high ping mate...

studentjoe

stuff.hunter wrote: »

crappy router can be a source of high ping mate...

well the ping from my computer to my routers is 1ms,

I have a Voyager 210 which is connected to the phone line, then a TP-Link WR941N which goes to the voyager, I would say they are pretty reliable and have never given dropped the connect or given me trouble. Good wireless signal from the TP-Link too

Speedtest.net is not an accurate test for ping performance. Much better to use the command prompt for such tests.

studentjoe

Karsini wrote: »

Speedtest.net is not an accurate test for ping performance. Much better to use the command prompt for such tests.

Thank you, How exactly do I take a ping test on cmd. Do you mean ''tracert <ip adress here>''?

Also Are my line stats good of bad? is 20db down and 14bd up good for a noise margin?

If I was switched onto FastPath right now without any adjustments would my line keep on loosing connection?

lmimmfn

studentjoe wrote: »

Thank you, How exactly do I take a ping test on cmd. Do you mean ''tracert <ip adress here>''?

Also Are my line stats good of bad? is 20db down and 14bd up good for a noise margin?

If I was switched onto FastPath right now without any adjustments would my line keep on loosing connection?

Your line stats look good. just open a command prompt and type
"ping boards.ie"
and tell us what is returns as pings

studentjoe

lmimmfn wrote: »

Your line stats look good. just open a command prompt and type
"ping boards.ie"
and tell us what is returns as pings

Done:

Min. 33ms Max 36ms Avg. 34ms

Gaw_

studentjoe wrote: »

Done:

Min. 33ms Max 36ms Avg. 34ms

Well there you go :P

studentjoe

thanks for the help

PogMoThoin

studentjoe wrote: »

Done:

Min. 33ms Max 36ms Avg. 34ms

Your connection is fine, low 30's is what anyone on dsl normally gets (on average)

C:\Users\Colm>ping www.boards.ie

Pinging loadbalancer.boards.ie [89.234.66.107] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=55
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=55
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=55
Reply from 89.234.66.107: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=55

Ping statistics for 89.234.66.107:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 34ms, Maximum = 34ms, Average = 34ms