speedtest.net big ping

[GazCBG]

Hi,

Is anyone else getting big ping's on speedtest.net

Maidenhead 510ms Ping
Manchester 525ms Ping
London 27ms Ping
Paris 525ms Ping

It been like this for a week now

I have rebooted both Cable Modem and Router.
I will try without the router in place tomorrow if I can

[Ignitionnet]

Is it actually making any difference to your service?

Seriously don't worry about a bad ping to speedtest.net it's not necessarily accurate.

[GazCBG]

I don't think it is, but I did noticed when I was playing a game online, it was lagging a few times, and game maps seem to take a bit longer to load.

But both them could be down to the server I was on.

[Ignitionnet]

If it was just a one off probably not a major issue. Speedtest.net has never displayed an accurate ping for me even though the results have been accurate speed wise, the way it measures them relies on Flash.

[CrowmanUK]

Try running a manual ping, speedtest always gave me a huge ping which was never accurate, try pinging something like the bbc.co.uk, thats the one I usually use

http://wiki.phoenixlabs.org/wiki/How_to_ping_a_website_or_an_IP_address%3F

[roger_chef]

yeh pings to bbc should really be under 20ms constant as long as u arent doing anythin on ur connection.

[Jabbs]

Why do people take speed test results as how there connection is, here is one i did on 50meg, the bottom one being my true speed.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2009/07/95.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[Kymmy]

No problems here (apart from speed.io giving me a higher upload then I should have)

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2009/07/93.png
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2009/07/94.png
http://speed.io/pics/2174/6051/speed.io.png

[Jabbs]

You just can't rely on speed tests to say that's how my connection is working, so many times i have run them and got 8 meg then downloaded something and its maxed my connection out at 6200kb/s ish.

[GazCBG]

Hi,

I just worked out what causing it.
It is Comodo Firewall, so I have uninstalled and turn on the Windows Firewall for now.

Net seems a bit more faster at both loading a connecting to the site