Improved Latency?

[Ekhaatvensters]

I only noticed this today, but im shure it wasnt like this yesterday. I have suddenly got about 100-200ms better international ping times.

Im not shure if this maby has somethign to do with the SAIX peering which was upgraded today, but if this is permanent it will be great.

Basically I dont have the best conenction and my pings to the US and Europe usually sit in the 480+ (lowest ever experience) and normally 500-600.

Yet today i got these results:

Pinging www.l.google.com [64.233.187.104] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 64.233.187.104: bytes=32 time=351ms TTL=238
Reply from 64.233.187.104: bytes=32 time=356ms TTL=238
Reply from 64.233.187.104: bytes=32 time=347ms TTL=238
Reply from 64.233.187.104: bytes=32 time=351ms TTL=238
Reply from 64.233.187.104: bytes=32 time=352ms TTL=238
Reply from 64.233.187.104: bytes=32 time=377ms TTL=238
Reply from 64.233.187.104: bytes=32 time=352ms TTL=238
Reply from 64.233.187.104: bytes=32 time=351ms TTL=238
Reply from 64.233.187.104: bytes=32 time=357ms TTL=238
Reply from 64.233.187.104: bytes=32 time=352ms TTL=238

Ping statistics for 64.233.187.104:
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 347ms, Maximum = 377ms, Average = 354ms

Pinging dslreports.com [209.123.109.175] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 209.123.109.175: bytes=32 time=385ms TTL=44
Reply from 209.123.109.175: bytes=32 time=424ms TTL=44
Reply from 209.123.109.175: bytes=32 time=388ms TTL=44
Reply from 209.123.109.175: bytes=32 time=417ms TTL=44
Reply from 209.123.109.175: bytes=32 time=406ms TTL=44
Reply from 209.123.109.175: bytes=32 time=410ms TTL=44
Reply from 209.123.109.175: bytes=32 time=413ms TTL=44
Reply from 209.123.109.175: bytes=32 time=400ms TTL=44
Reply from 209.123.109.175: bytes=32 time=404ms TTL=44
Reply from 209.123.109.175: bytes=32 time=403ms TTL=44

Ping statistics for 209.123.109.175:
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 385ms, Maximum = 424ms, Average = 405ms

Pinging www.yahoo-ht2.akadns.net [209.191.93.52] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 209.191.93.52: bytes=32 time=317ms TTL=45
Reply from 209.191.93.52: bytes=32 time=345ms TTL=46
Reply from 209.191.93.52: bytes=32 time=345ms TTL=46
Reply from 209.191.93.52: bytes=32 time=343ms TTL=45
Reply from 209.191.93.52: bytes=32 time=368ms TTL=45
Reply from 209.191.93.52: bytes=32 time=352ms TTL=46
Reply from 209.191.93.52: bytes=32 time=345ms TTL=46
Reply from 209.191.93.52: bytes=32 time=359ms TTL=46
Reply from 209.191.93.52: bytes=32 time=350ms TTL=46
Reply from 209.191.93.52: bytes=32 time=348ms TTL=45

Ping statistics for 209.191.93.52:
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 317ms, Maximum = 368ms, Average = 347ms

EDIT: and pings to Europe are even better, if only I knew some more European sites to ping..

Pinging www.heise.de [193.99.144.85] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 193.99.144.85: bytes=32 time=285ms TTL=239
Reply from 193.99.144.85: bytes=32 time=308ms TTL=239
Reply from 193.99.144.85: bytes=32 time=311ms TTL=239
Reply from 193.99.144.85: bytes=32 time=318ms TTL=239
Reply from 193.99.144.85: bytes=32 time=313ms TTL=239
Reply from 193.99.144.85: bytes=32 time=347ms TTL=239
Reply from 193.99.144.85: bytes=32 time=316ms TTL=239
Reply from 193.99.144.85: bytes=32 time=314ms TTL=239
Reply from 193.99.144.85: bytes=32 time=323ms TTL=239
Reply from 193.99.144.85: bytes=32 time=322ms TTL=239

Ping statistics for 193.99.144.85:
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 285ms, Maximum = 347ms, Average = 315ms

 

[Inertia]

That's better than my 512 SAIX acc... Good to see

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

Well I am capped atm, so I cant really check if it makes a big difference to surfing as it always gets slow once the page needs to be loaded, but it seems to make the connection to the site alot quicker..

This does sound great for those WoW and Guild Wars players, im going to go try some international battle.net or BF2 (dunno if capped will be enough speed..) now, ive never really been able to play internationaly before.

 

[Tjorriemorrie]

I don't really know...last weekend my average pings to google.com was 483. right now i got 580. AND i got 22 timeouts with 100 pings. could be just my connection, but i never used to get timeouts on international ping...

maybe it's my mtu settings. I set it as ekhaatvensters recommended seburn's settings, but when i opened it right now it changed... to 1400. weird. anyone know why?

 

[regardtv]

Guys .. unless something MAJOR has changed your MTU should still be 1352...

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

Ja, MTU is stil reccomended at 1352. Tjorrie was just wondering why it changed on his, i guess you should change it back Tjorrie, might help.

 

[GreatBigMouth]

You should change the MTU setting back to 1352 or your connection may be degraded. I made the mistake once of setting my MTU to 1500, and my connection speed dropped from 900kb/s to less than 300kb/s. Weird, but true.

PS: Does anyone here know what the recommended value for the "TCP RECIEVE WINDOW" is?