High ping :(

StarTrader wrote:
NORT: You don’t seem to understand.

Here it is in clear words:

You have to change your Internet Provider (ISP) to get better connection speeds.

Not necessarily true. If he currently receives the best his installed line can provide, then changing ISP won’t make a single bit of difference.

Call your ISP and talk to them instead.

Could be. But it’s odd - he’s got a very low download speed. in any case he may not have another provider in Oman.

NORT There is no way we can tell about what ping times you will have, but don’t worry too much about how low it is, my server is 120-200ms and is running fine.

Today my server’s ping is 117ms, my download speed is 5.17Mb/sec and my upload is 0.38Mb/second.

If you have a wireless router in your house, it may be corrupted or bad somehow, try resetting it?

And if your machine is a desktop PC using a wireless card, move the aerial on the card a little and run the speed test again - mine worked well when it was horizontal (0.750Mb/sec when I had a 1Mb/sec link) but was very slow (less than 0.256Mb/sec) when it was vertical.

Or you may be at the edge of the ISP’s router’s range or capacity, this happened to me in Cyprus and my connection speed dropped very low. I had to wait for months until my ISP upgraded their router.

What is your connection speed supposed to be? Mine is 10Mb/sec nominal.

If you have tried a speed test on a machine in another location, what is it?

The ping delay is because of the number of routers & servers and proxies between your machine and the destination machine.

So ping is not link-speed dependent, but you do need reasonable speed too.

0.400Mb/second download is not enough, something is wrong

If your ping is 200ms or less I know it will be OK because mine is OK.

I think I can see what the problem is here, it’s a simple matter of geographical location.

Map

Communications in Oman

Sounds like broadband hasn’t been around for long in Oman, has only one provider which is part nationalized. Looking at where you are in the world, I assume it’s desert like terrain with long distances between places with telegraph poles lining the side of the roads. If that’s anywhere near close to the truth then I would love to know what your line attenuation is, if you have a router then you should be able to find that figure. Damn sand gets in everything I bet.

Well, that connection bandwith is definitivly better, what did you ping at? EU or US?
But yeah, the problem is most likely the 3200 miles I guess.

WHOAH. Are you telling me an 8mbps connection in Oman costs $260 per month?

Jeez, and I thought my ISP were thieves. Well, they do have a monopoly in the country and charge $50 per month for 4mbps, but that’s nowhere near this.

NORT wrote:

Vesko wrote:
WHOAH. Are you telling me an 8mbps connection in Oman costs $260 per month?

Jeez, and I thought my ISP were thieves. Well, they do have a monopoly in the country and charge $50 per month for 4mbps, but that’s nowhere near this.

We have worked Province about 3,000 people did it

internet was :

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internet now : http://www.omantel.om/OmanWebLib/Individual/Internet/homebroadband.aspx?linkId=3&MenuId=420

now i am fun

my download speed 2 Mbps , it was 512 Kbps !

today I bought AlFA and look to my speed now :

ALFA :http://www.wifilab.net/wifi/images/stories/alfa-usb.jpg

Yeah, that’s definitely better. Your ping should be good now, since I’ve been playing with a 2mbps connection for two years now.

As for hosting a server, I think a 3-4 man server should be able to run on that connection.

OK, good - so what is your ping now?

NORT wrote:

StarTrader wrote:
OK, good - so what is your ping now?

303ms Fluct: 1 loss: 0 lag: 0

To which server?

Vesko wrote:

NORT wrote:

today I bought AlFA and look to my speed now :

Yeah, that’s definitely better. Your ping should be good now, since I’ve been playing with a 2mbps connection for two years now.

Mis-conception that “faster” connection = better ping. It may do, but it isn’t because of more bandwidth
Also, I think his UP-RATE will define how many his server can handle - which is no better than it was

A ping of 50+ms to a local server (under 50 miles) isn’t that good but far better than the 100ms he had before - which was terrible. However, they are snapshots and not averages - so who knows

Here are some distance variations for mine

UK (local, about 2 miles)

UK (Birmingham, so middle of UK) to Paris

UK to Turkey (1700 miles)

UK to Oman (~3000 miles)

(funnily enough better ping than to Turkey - but i did NOT repeat any tests to find averages ).

UK To South Africa (~6000 miles)

UK to Australia (~10000 miles)

Forget the speeds achieved - look at the pings and distance

Yep, ping and upload speed are the two deciding factors, in that order. Unfortunately, ping has a very high chance of being determined by the overall infrastructure, which isn’t all that much dependent on the internet connection you have.

Totally correct.

The data (even if it is only a tiny “ping packet” ) is sent from your machine to the nearest router, from there to another router or maybe a server, from there to the next, from there to the next, and so on until it gets to the destination machine. And there is a pause for Name Server queries too along the way.

And then the “ping response” is sent back to your machine by the same path as before, or maybe another path.

If even one of those servers or routers is busy doing a lot of transfers/lookups, this will cause a delay.

Many think this transfer should be instantaneous - surprise surprise, technology is fast but not when everyone is banging away on facebook and Google and transferring masses of images and videos, as they do today. You only have to look at any website and see how many images are on every page, these have to be downloaded to your machine so they can be shown - everyone connected to your path is doing the same! lol

Thought i’d ping Oman to see what i get on my connection for $25 a month

Close to home

Muscat, Oman

Another factor to consider in connections is your own pc, if it has trojans or anything else lurking in the background, it can really slow down your connection speed.

Gibbon wrote:
Thought i’d ping Oman to see what i get on my connection for $25 a month

Close to home

Muscat, Oman

Another factor to consider in connections is your own pc, if it has trojans or anything else lurking in the background, it can really slow down your connection speed.

$25 a month? Holy heck, I’m moving

Mine costs about the same - however, I’d be looking at $40+ per month to get anything like your connection…and I don’t think I’ll ever get that up speed