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Hello,
We had FTTP (Vodafone full fibre 500) installed about 4 months ago and when we first got I was getting between 0ms and 6ms ping rates on COD on my Xbox. Since then that rate has decreased to between 19ms and 28ms which is what I was getting on 75 mega copper broadband.
Any ideas what's going on?
I have the Vodafone standard fibre router, Netgear unmanaged switch. The Xbox is hardwired either to the switch or direct to router (when it actually connects ifndirect to the router, apparently a known Vodafone issue).
I have tried, fixed IP address (internal network), Vodafones default DNS, externally set DNS, external fixed IP but nothing is making a difference?
Any ideas please?
Thanks
Try a tracert command to see where the delay is creeping in.
https://www.howtogeek.com/134132/how-to-use-traceroute-to-identify-network-problems/
I don't believe you were ever really getting 6ms, and there's no way you were getting 0ms. My guess is that cod was giving you dodgy data and they've now fixed that. There's no real reason fttp should give significantly lower latency than copper (ie, bot will be in the region of 1ms to the local data centre)
I don’t believe you were ever really getting 6ms,
6ms is possible, e.g.
From home (super cheap plusnet DSL) bbc.co.uk is 12ms
From a server in Google's London Datacentre it's 2.4ms
So 6ms is possible.
Possibly server side, don’t worry that tiny difference isn’t going to make you any worse of a player.
IIRC you used to get kicked from battlefield servers if your ping rose over 100ms for x amount of time. Which is fair enough.
More of an issue when connecting to game servers in the USA etc, rather than more 'local' European ones.
Anything under 50ms is fine, less than 20ms is good/ideal... but it depends what/where you are pinging in relation to where you are.
To add, if you get rubber banding/high ping, when gaming it could be the game server that you are connected to is overloaded with players, or is low on resources..
Or just very far away, as father ted would say.
How many more customers are now using the fibre in your area? There could be some throttling due to volume of demand...
Saying that, I've no idea if throttling is a thing with fibre.
For example:
Curious to see how many hops it would be from within a google server farm..
traceroute to 142.250.200.46 (142.250.200.46), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 * * *
2 142.250.230.185 (142.250.230.185) 1.184 ms 142.250.230.183 (142.250.230.183) 1.757 ms 142.250.230.181 (142.250.230.181) 1.160 ms
3 142.251.52.143 (142.251.52.143) 1.616 ms 1.662 ms 142.251.52.145 (142.251.52.145) 1.716 ms
4 lhr48s30-in-f14.1e100.net (142.250.200.46) 1.099 ms 2.097 ms 1.058 ms
But If I pathping something more 'local' like bbc.co.uk..., there's only about 2ms latency.
If I ping myself, I get zero latency, which is as expected 😉
