Originally Posted by pabscars (Post 35217367)

Finally got my Sky BB up and running, only getting about about 3.5Mbps DL and 0.4 Up at the moment but what a diference

The ping is quite high due to my distance from the exchange but it's only to the first hop and gaming on it is world's apart, I played Black Op's on the PS3 for a hour last night and the only bit of lag I got was when a mate hosted (on Virgin) but that only lasted for a second or two plus no more getting shot round corners, no dropped bullets whilst sniping etc etc. It just goes to show that Jitter makes all the difference.

I've not had any signing in issues or error codes, voice quality whilst in game has improved with friends saying they can hear me clearer.

Originally Posted by Chrysalis (Post 35217481)

interleaving is a buffer added to add error correction, the higher its set then more latency the connection has. High interleaving will add a lot of latency and can easily triple base latency.

Originally Posted by pabscars (Post 35217569)

I just assumed that because I'm at the end of a couple of miles of copper, that's the reason the ping is as high as it is.

Either way as long as it performs as well as it did last night I will be happy, but the true test will be whether it can sustain me gaming while the wife is on her lappy on you tube and facebook etc.

Time will tell, but if I'm right I think standard definition you tube only uses about 2Mbps??, gaming is next to nothing so I should be ok.

One thing I did notice was that the MTU was set at 1500 and I thought ADSL should ideally be a little lower eg 1472??

Any advice welcome

Originally Posted by craigj2k11 (Post 35217639)

depends on the network, most isps have it set at 1500, but some use 1472, and some even use 1400

Originally Posted by craigj2k11 (Post 35217647)

to calculate what MTU you should use

http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/MTU2.htm

Originally Posted by kalleh (Post 35217838)

call up sky and tell them to reduce your maxdelays pabscars and youll see a big improvement in ping

Originally Posted by kalleh (Post 35217955)

Yeah if you speak to someone who doesnt know what it is try to speak to either senior support but generally the term used it maxdelay/interleaving.

Originally Posted by Chrysalis (Post 35217910)

pabscars you have proved a point I made before tho.

the point been jitter is king over base latency, you have a high base latency but good jitter hence your improvement in gaming.

Originally Posted by craigj2k11 (Post 35217982)

max delay and interleaving is a completley different thing. on LLU sky will NOT put you onto a zero interleaving profile whatsoever, i dont even think the staff have the option to, however on the non LLU packages i think they can. on the LLU they have the option of reducing the max delay, from what i remember its from 16 to 8 to reduce ping

Originally Posted by pip08456 (Post 35218251)

After your earlier post I checked my Infinity graph which was also a mass of red.

Turns out my IP had changed.

Looks like I have to monitor that as I am used to VM IP's being sticky (sort of).