Any tips to lower ping???

Just tell the helpdesk that you cannot use VoIP bcos WBS sucks bigtime, and that WBS' iBurst will go bankrupt & employees will all lose their jobs bcos you will tell everyone you know, that WBS' iBurst is hugely contended on certain Gauteng base-stations that causes up & down latency - mostly up - that makes realtime applications useless, like VoIP and gaming, and it also makes basic stuff like browsing & email require several failed attempts & refreshes from time to time and that the service is very unreliable and not suited for business or anything else... Just a suggestion...
 
to answer the question this thread posed, move to my tower:
Pinging www.iburst.co.za [196.30.31.120] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 196.30.31.120: bytes=32 time=76ms TTL=126
Reply from 196.30.31.120: bytes=32 time=62ms TTL=126
Reply from 196.30.31.120: bytes=32 time=78ms TTL=126
Reply from 196.30.31.120: bytes=32 time=78ms TTL=126
Reply from 196.30.31.120: bytes=32 time=78ms TTL=126

Ping statistics for 196.30.31.120:
Packets: Sent = 5, Received = 5, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 62ms, Maximum = 78ms, Average = 77ms
Click to expand...
 
Reply from 196.30.31.120: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=126
Reply from 196.30.31.120: bytes=32 time=62ms TTL=126
Reply from 196.30.31.120: bytes=32 time=62ms TTL=126
Reply from 196.30.31.120: bytes=32 time=78ms TTL=126

Ping statistics for 196.30.31.120:
Packets: Sent = 5, Received = 5, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 60ms, Maximum = 78ms, Average = 65ms

My Pings have gotten much better than last week..
Slim any news on the torrent flux acc
 
yeah i mailed you about that on thursday or friday, hold on i'll shoot another one off
 
Slim your PM box is full, i replied to the e-mail on fri. did you get it?
*Sorry for the thread jack*
 
ping -n 10 iburst.co.za
Pinging iburst.co.za [196.30.31.120] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 196.30.31.120: bytes=32 time=69ms TTL=125
...
Reply from 196.30.31.120: bytes=32 time=225ms TTL=125

Ping statistics for 196.30.31.120:
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 61ms, Maximum = 225ms, Average = 86ms

Wonderboom (/ Sunnyside), Smoothwall, MTU=1424, signal=100%
 
slimothy said:
to answer the question this thread posed, move to my tower:
Click to expand...


Or to mine:
Reply from 196.30.31.120: bytes=32 time=71ms TTL=126
Reply from 196.30.31.120: bytes=32 time=78ms TTL=126
Reply from 196.30.31.120: bytes=32 time=78ms TTL=126
Reply from 196.30.31.120: bytes=32 time=62ms TTL=126

Ping statistics for 196.30.31.120:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 62ms, Maximum = 78ms, Average = 72ms
 
Please do decent ping tests using
ping -t www.iburst.co.za -l 1
from a command prompt

and hitting ctrl - c after about 5mins then post summary
 
accuracy is a different issue ... if we all use ping then we all can compare relative to ping, but with only like 4 pings one cannot tell anything of the stability of the pings.
 
thats why we use pathping that maintains a connection for 75 seconds. But this all has nothing to do with the topic. Has anyone found anything that lowers your ping? Im still trying to find pingbot, it either doesnt exist or the people that use it are not willing to share it.
 
hehhe, I can think of a few ways to lower ping but it involves a phone call to a fixed line provider ;-)

Seriously though... directional antenna to a "better" tower is about the best "real fix"... on a highly problematic link very low mtu's would lower pings ... but at the cost of actual throughput so that's a rather academic fix.
 
Lovely! (840) I will assume thats the average value.

Ways to lower ping:

1. Use my mtu settings from sig (straight from wbs tech)
2. Use the arial (btw i think there is a more powerfull one on its way)
3. Move the arial / utd everywhere to find the lowest ping (while monitoring it)
4. Part of 2 but I will say anyway: try change the tower you connect to (and confirm that you did change with wbs)
5. twiddle your thumbs and hope WBS will inprove their service
6. Complain complain complain and when you are finished complain again
7. Change broadband service (kick iburst)
 
Is the safest way to find out what base station you are connected to and changing it to phone WBS?
 
u connecting to the STRONGEST signal, unless tower is overloaded completely.
 
ravilj@ziig ~ $ ping -c 5 www.iburst.co.za
PING www.iburst.co.za (196.30.31.120) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from iburst.co.za (196.30.31.120): icmp_seq=1 ttl=125 time=87.2 ms
64 bytes from iburst.co.za (196.30.31.120): icmp_seq=2 ttl=125 time=121 ms
64 bytes from iburst.co.za (196.30.31.120): icmp_seq=3 ttl=125 time=161 ms
64 bytes from iburst.co.za (196.30.31.120): icmp_seq=4 ttl=125 time=83.3 ms
64 bytes from iburst.co.za (196.30.31.120): icmp_seq=5 ttl=125 time=83.4 ms

--- www.iburst.co.za ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 3999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 83.366/107.453/161.654/30.668 ms
 
my ping for iburst is stable 40 - 60ms for the all time.
international 200 - 300 - dep. of site
download 850-950 (international tests),
FTP - ~100kB/s
uplod 120-170 - slow for past couple weeks
 
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