Mine used to be about 5ms but that was wired.

This is on WiFi (5GHz channel 44 with the signal going though a brick wall)

Download 74.85 Mb/s
Upload 19.00 Mb/s
Ping 13 ms

FTTC (Scotland )

Ping 15ms
DL 78Mbps
UL 19 Mbps

Is there a real-world advantage in having a ping time of, say, 5ms over 15ms?

Only if you're a serious gamer in multi-player online games. It's irrelevant otherwise.

The lowest ping I can get on speedtest is 16ms. This goes to 19ms if I let the site choose the server for me. I'm hoping theses ping times are because I'm using a HDD and that when I'm using an SSD, my ping times will be lowered. Maybe, maybe not.

Lol, your HDD or even an SSD have NOTHING to do with ping times,

Your "ping time" is the physical time it takes for a packet to be sent from your machine to the server via all the cables/exchanges and routers and to receive the reply

You can easily test this by speed testing to a server in Australia, you will see your ping times soar to over 200ms+

http://www.speedtest.net/

11ms at the moment. It can be as low as 7 or 8 some days.

Mines was 11ms but dropped a little more at 2am to 10ms on 80/20 fibre speeds are actually about 74 down 18 up.

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On my new connection London Gives me a ping of 8
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4416972290
Its very nice not having to wait for large files to upload all day anymore now.
And this one gives a 1
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4409683604

Download speed has absolutely zero relation to ping time. Download speed is limited by the data rate on the connection, ping time is determined by the distance to the site you 'ping', which in turn is limited by the speed of light in fibre. If you're not a serious gamer where interactive round-trip times matter there's no point in paying any attention to ping.

the thing is, you are not on Fibre you are on copper.

ADSL2+ and VDSL (which you are on) should be quite the same i've seen below 10ms on ADSL2+ before today. it's all about fastpath and interleaving.

that 1ms test will be not accurate, since you are using copper and DSL there is always a slight few ms different to a fibre service or cable. i often get similiar results on my copper vdsl line.

also testing on the same network (virgin network or BT or whatever it's always going to be lower)

9mS

75 up
17 down

SSD wont help, the ping times are not determined by your computer.

You physical location in the country, what you are pinging and what type of internet and how your ISP prioritises IMCP traffic will all have a substantial effect.

Both Cable and FTTC have cooper elements from the last cabinet to your house. Only FTTP (which there is very little of nationally) is fibre to the house.

Mine is with Plusnet (owned by BT since 2008) now ADSL2
download: 19.66 Mb/s;
upload: 0.6Mb/s
Upstream rate IP profile is 0.83Mb/s
No ping result shown on BT result page

When I was on ADSL my download speed was around 7Mb/s and my upload speed was approx 4Mb/s and everything sailed along fine.

Now with this "super" ADSL2 I should be whistling, but I am not.
I write comments on forums and on three of the sites I visit it takes forever to load and forever to go from one screen to another.

Please can someone explain in plain English what my problem is?

A big thank you in advance.

BT ADSL 2+

Currently 43ms, 1.4 up, 0.86 down

One evening it was 436-1079ms, 0.27-0.8 down, 0.7-0.88 up

Ping 7ms

Down 52.11 MB/s
Up 18.40 MB/s

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4450864989

Hmm... Anyway, I forgot I posted that. Yes, ping times are how long it takes for the packet to get back.

Yeah, I realise that now after reading up on pinging last year.

Not sure of the ping (think it's around 50ms) but the d/l speed is about 15mb and the u/l is about 1mb

Low to some, but it's better than what I thought I was going to get - the average speeds in the area are about 1/3 of what I get.

Just doing a ping using Speedtest.net test doesn't really show anything since they have multiple servers and you may connect to a server half-way across the country, while someone else may be connecting to a server hosted by their own ISP.

Speedtest.net also do their ping test before doing the actual speed test, so the ping is done while the connection isn't under load and doesn't reflect real usage of a connection.

Use the DSLreports speed test to test the responsiveness on your connection. It runs a continuous ping both before and during the speed test so you can see what effect you downloading and uploading will have on your connection's latency.

On the DSLreports speedtest results page ignore the raw ping values since it typically connects to a foreign server. Instead look at the differences between the idle, downloading, and uploading ping values. The differences between my idle and downloading pings is only an additional 7ms, and between my idle and uploading 3ms. This nets me an "A+" grade for bufferbloat.