Virgin Media Latency

[Terry101]

hey im new to the forum and virgin (get installed on friday 19th march) what i was wondering is ping time better on 50Mbits than on 20? as my sister who lives down the road has the 20Mb Service and im getting the 50 which im mainly getting for the increased upload if im being honest and she has pretty awesome ping(i previously lived where no cable got like 1mb down(on a good day) and 250k upload on bt's total bb upto 8meg LOL any comments on ping would be great thx ;)

[Ignitionnet]

hey im new to the forum and virgin (get installed on friday 19th march) what i was wondering is ping time better on 50Mbits than on 20?

Nah.

[*sloman*]

its in general, see my test today below:

Gaming wise i only play xbox live and heard M$ put everyone on a minimum 80ms ping to even things out.

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[Ignitionnet]

its in general, see my test today below:

Gaming wise i only play xbox live and heard M$ put everyone on a minimum 80ms ping to even things out.

http://www.pingtest.net/result/12619728.png (http://www.pingtest.net)

OK I'll go into more detail given the simple answer didn't cut it. :)

The vast majority of the time it makes no difference at all - both 20M and 50M customers in most cases run on the same equipment with most of the same configuration, the only difference being 50M use bonded downstreams. 50M get no priority access to the upstream bandwidth, which is the major cause of delay on cable, they just get to ask for more of it so no difference for playing and only means 50M can host more people.

In some instances it can go either way due to one or the other being over capacity.

So no, there's no difference in general only specific cases which can go both ways.

From my O2 ADSL:

http://www.pingtest.net/result/12636029.png (http://www.pingtest.net)