Am I false informed.?

[SauRoNZA]

We can also get more technical with it, but we are already way OT here.

It's the time it takes a packet to be sent, from your computer to the server, and a acknowledgement of receipt is received for said packet.

You just repeated what I said in less detail.

 

[Johnatan56]

Nope he is quote correct.

It's the round trip time since an echo request is sent and an echo reply received.

I just didn't want to go into that much detail but should have known someone would want to dig deeper.

Thanks, don't know why I thought my previous answer, realized after thinking about it and light speed that you're/he's correct.

 

[EasyUp Web Hosting]

You just repeated what I said in less detail.

We can also get more technical with it, but we are already way OT here.

It's the time it takes a packet to be sent, from your computer to the server, and a acknowledgement of receipt is received for said packet.

:erm:

 

[SauRoNZA]

Thanks, don't know why I thought my previous answer, realized after thinking about it and light speed that you're/he's correct.

Ultimately it really doesn't matter.

It's a measure that you compare to another measure and that is its only relevance really.

 

[BertKu]

The time registered in a ping is the time it takes for a packet of data to be sent from your client to the server and back again.

Thank you, at least somebody answer one of my ????? Thanks Bert

 

[infscrtyrisk]

Am I false informed.?

Yes.

 

[BertKu]

Yes.

Thank you for your honesty. In the meantime I have spoken to a technician which was hammering on his laptop some data at one of the sub mini exhanges AND NOT FIBRE OPTICS CABLING sub stations, what I thought, which have been installed in our area, tens of them, all connected to the Great Brak Exchange. The purpose of those sub mini exchanges is to speed up the speed of copper cabling. His reply is: up to 50 meters from such mini exchange in excess of 10 Mbit/sec but maximum 14 - 16 Mbits/sec. Up to 500 meters, one could expect up to 8 @ 9 Mbit/sec and further away only between 4 to 5 Mbit/sec . Well at least I know now what my situation is and will have to try to reconnect my Deltech Dreamgame 7 year old satellite decoder to receive BVN via satellite again. With Ice Hockey life games, I just have to be lucky that
the lines will give me 8 Mbit/sec. Thank all for the comments and advice. Bert

 

[Johnatan56]

Thank you for your honesty. In the meantime I have spoken to a technician which was hammering on his laptop some data at one of the sub mini exhanges AND NOT FIBRE OPTICS CABLING sub stations, what I thought, which have been installed in our area, tens of them, all connected to the Great Brak Exchange. The purpose of those sub mini exchanges is to speed up the speed of copper cabling. His reply is: up to 50 meters from such mini exchange in excess of 10 Mbit/sec but maximum 14 - 16 Mbits/sec. Up to 500 meters, one could expect up to 8 @ 9 Mbit/sec and further away only between 4 to 5 Mbit/sec . Well at least I know now what my situation is and will have to try to reconnect my Deltech Dreamgame 7 year old satellite decoder to receive BVN via satellite again. With Ice Hockey life games, I just have to be lucky that
the lines will give me 8 Mbit/sec. Thank all for the comments and advice. Bert

10Mbps is up to about 2500 meters cabling. This is the distance from you to the exchange, do note your line does not travel in a straight line and might take circuitous routes.
And 8-9Mbps speedtest on a 10Mbps line is normal due to overheads.

 

[BertKu]

Thank you Johnatan56, Nice graph. I have a VDSL/ADSL router and a unopened box with VDSL2/ADSL2 Wireless N300 4-Port USB router.
The installed router is now 2 years old and have been told it is exactly the same as what is in the unopened box. What is ADSL2 actual and how can one get ADSL2 instead of ADSL? Many thanks for some info. Bert

 

[Johnatan56]

Thank you Johnatan56, Nice graph. I have a VDSL/ADSL router and a unopened box with VDSL2/ADSL2 Wireless N300 4-Port USB router.
The installed router is now 2 years old and have been told it is exactly the same as what is in the unopened box. What is ADSL2 actual and how can one get ADSL2 instead of ADSL? Many thanks for some info. Bert

There is a very large chance that you already have ADSL2+.
As I previously said, log into your router and get the line stats and modulation, it states what your current sync is, what tech you're being connected with and out of it we can make assumptions as to what your max speed is.