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What is your ping?
Please go to www.speedtest.net - run the test and report your ping, together with ISP (for the novices, lower number is better).
Mine is 7ms - Virgin Media cable rocks
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BT doesn't restrict your connection whereas Virgin does at certain times.
By the way, ping times for FTTC are obviously going to be much higher than an all fibre connection.
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By the way, ping times for FTTC are obviously going to be much higher than an all fibre connection.
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There is absolutely no reason why that should be the case. Most delays in ping times are due to the intermediate routers, the transmission speed in fibre is the same as that in copper.
Edit: by the way, when I say much higher, I mean 15ms is the quickest I've had with the website in the link in the first post. |
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BT doesn't restrict your connection whereas Virgin does at certain times.
By the way, ping times for FTTC are obviously going to be much higher than an all fibre connection. |
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I never had a ping time of 5ms with ADSL and ADSL2. I've also used all the servers in Britain on the speedtest website. Explain how I never had a ping time lower than 30ms when on ADSL2 then..
"ping" time (ICMP round-trip) is affected by many things, mostly the number of router hops, but also by general traffic load. You'd need to use something like traceroute to compare the hop count. The actual physical media, fibre or copper, won't have any affect over the link between a local exchange and a home. It's only over national distances where that would make a difference, since you can run fibre for hundreds of km without repeaters (which add delay). That's why companies install it in the backbone network, but are in no rush to install it for the "last mile", where it will make no practical difference. |
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22ms 15.38mb down - 1mb up
Sky ADSL till the end of this month! |
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No one mentioned an all fibre connection though. The original poster is on Virgin Media cable.
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What does ADSL have to do with a difference between FTTC and "all Fibre" ?
"ping" time (ICMP round-trip) is affected by many things, mostly the number of router hops, but also by general traffic load. You'd need to use something like traceroute to compare the hop count. The actual physical media, fibre or copper, won't have any affect over the link between a local exchange and a home. It's only over national distances where that would make a difference, since you can run fibre for hundreds of km without repeaters (which add delay). That's why companies install it in the backbone network, but are in no rush to install it for the "last mile", where it will make no practical difference. |
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Cable is fibre, is it not? They didn't say anything about ADSL either. I made an assumption based on what they said. How the hell am I supposed to know if they don't make things clear?
They did make it clear, they said Virgin Media cable. |
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Ping 291ms 4.28Mb/s download 0.38Mb/s upload. Orange.
Doesnae sound too good?
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on chiltern railways, birminghan to london with their free wifi i was getting 5ms ping times actually on the moving train.
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Sky fibre pro. 9ms ping, 72.8 down, 19.6 up
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You said "all fibre". Cable has a similar amount of fibre to FTTC. Cable is Hybrid Fibre Coaxial, so it is fibre to the cabinet and then coaxial copper from the cabinet to the customer.
They did make it clear, they said Virgin Media cable. |
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52ping
6.24 dl 0.68 upload |
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Oh, whatever. Can't be bloody bothered. I'm not going to argue because I don't know whether you're lying or not.
You seemed to think that Virgin run a pure fibre network and I just corrected you and told you it was HFC. What's the big deal? Not sure what you're getting ratty about. |
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Ping 291ms 4.28Mb/s download 0.38Mb/s upload. Orange.
Doesnae sound too good? ![]()
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Lying? Why would I lie? It would be easy enough for you to check if I'm lying anyway just Google "Virgin Media HFC" and you will see I'm not lying!
You seemed to think that Virgin run a pure fibre network and I just corrected you and told you it was HFC. What's the big deal? Not sure what you're getting ratty about. |
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So why do Virgin advertise that you don't need a phone line with their cable broadband?
MikeB is spot on though with what he's saying. ![]() Cable broadband is fibre to the node then delivered to your house via a coaxial cable completely separate from your phone line , with BT's FTTC its fibre optic to the street cab then delivered over your copper phone wire hence why you need a phone line. |
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So why do Virgin advertise that you don't need a phone line with their cable broadband?
I don't see what relevance your question has at all about the phone line but I'll answer it. Virgin have their own separate network. It IS HFC, it isn't pure fibre. It is theirs and they don't share it with anyone. So it's up to them if they don't want to require you have a phone line with their broadband. Their broadband isn't delivered over a phone line, it is delivered as I've said via fibre to a cabinet in the street and then coaxial cable from the cabinet to your house. So it's a good differentiator from the competition for them to be able to advertise that you don't NEED a phone line to have their broadband. Quote:
MikeB is spot on though with what he's saying.
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BT Infinity 76Mb:
Peak times: 10-15ms 69-70Mb Off-peak times: 10-11ms 74-75Mb I used to have Virgin Media 120Mb up until October 2013 at my previous address, the only real difference i notice is Youtube works much better with BT Infinity. On VM there was constant buffering issues normally at peak times especially at 720/1080 quality, which i barely notice with BT. So i dont know which i prefer. If BT Infinity matched the speed of VM, then id prefer BT... just based on the youtube thing (and other similar streaming video websites). Ping was about the same. |
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Did you even Google what I suggested? Why do I have to explain this all to you whilst you accuse me of lying?
I don't see what relevance your question has at all about the phone line but I'll answer it. Virgin have their own separate network. It IS HFC, it isn't pure fibre. It is theirs and they don't share it with anyone. So it's up to them if they don't want to require you have a phone line with their broadband. Their broadband isn't delivered over a phone line, it is delivered as I've said via fibre to a cabinet in the street and then coaxial cable from the cabinet to your house. So it's a good differentiator from the competition for them to be able to advertise that you don't NEED a phone line to have their broadband. Thanks for backing me up. |
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Probably because you don't !!!!!
MikeB is spot on though with what he's saying. ![]() Cable broadband is fibre to the node then delivered to your house via a coaxial cable completely separate from your phone line , with BT's FTTC its fibre optic to the street cab then delivered over your copper phone wire hence why you need a phone line. |
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Just forget it. I won't bother you again.
I just don't get your logic at all. Someone says something on a forum and it doesn't sound correct to you-surely you'd check for yourself before accusing them of lying? I would anyway. |
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You can't have fibre cabinets in Scotland as they have to discover electricity first!
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By the way, ping times for FTTC are obviously going to be much higher than an all fibre connection.