Latency issues

[ELIMINATOR]

Hello there. For about roughly 8 months now I have had high latency when I do a speed test to America . When I do a local speed test everything runs well. Is there any solution to this issue or could assist me on what I should do.

 

[P00HB33R]

Local and international latency will almost never be anywhere near the same due to the distance the packets travel.
What is your latency to america? It should be +- 150ms to 250ms
Local will normally be anything from 10ms up to around 60ms

 

[ELIMINATOR]

I get on a good night 300 and some nights its up to 500

 

[P00HB33R]

I tested to philidelphia and got 255ms. So your latency is not really an issue

 

[Vaughan]

If it is on adsl try a trial package from another service provider and see if it is any better. That is about all you can do.

 

[ELIMINATOR]

Maybe i'm not the only one but this speed test is done on my Xbox one. The reason why I think my latency was an issue is because that I cannot seem to get into a multiplayer game on forza motorsport 6 although I can play every other game perfectly. I always thought it would be my high latency restricting me . Trust me I have tried every trick in the book to get online. I have thought of using my cellphone data and maybe that would work but that would be costly on my pocket.

 

[Geoff.D]

Would help if you could post a few speedtests for others' to compare against, plus trace routes to the devices/servers you are referring to as well as indicate who your ISP is and what basic local access service you have ......

Latency is made up of a number of elements. Every device you go though contributes a bit, every hop contributes.

The biggest element on long distance is simply the distance. Over fibre it is about 4 - 5 µsec per km, and can be calculated very accurately.

Overloaded networks adds to the issue.

Once the source and destination is known, a calculation could be done of what the minimum would be. Any excess over that would be due to poor routings or network overload.

 

[ELIMINATOR]

I will definitely try and show the results of a few tests once I am able to. My network is not that overloaded. 3 cellphones on wifi, 4 pcs on wifi and 1 xbox one on Ethernet sometimes on the wifi as well. I will show results later of what is going on.