High ping :(

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

Opening the port isn’t going to lower your ping. A ping of 140ms from Oman to Germany is perfectly fine.

Say, have you ever thought of the Pong?

TheDvDMan wrote:
Say, have you ever thought of the Pong?

Lol wat.

Nort, I think you have still not understood what is causing the length of response times (pings). It is not in your control.

Tell us what you think makes the delay and we will try to inform you better.