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Is there any way of lowering your ping,or is that an ISP thing.:):shrug:
 
I assume you are talking about the latency, the duration in millisecond to get a response back?

Strictly speaking no, not really it is an ISP thing. You could make minor improvement by getting a better router, or changing your dns settings as many default ISP ones seem rather slow. But ultimately the biggest impact is your ISP.
 
Thought so,thanks anyway.:)
 
Locally all you can do is ensure you are using a wired network connection instead of wireless. Changing the router might shave a millisecond off, or it might not. Not enough to make a difference to anything.
 
Also DNS resolution time has no bearing on ping time - perhaps on the first ping as it makes the resolution but subsequent ones would use the cached resolution data.
 
hunnymonster said:
Also DNS resolution time has no bearing on ping time - perhaps on the first ping as it makes the resolution but subsequent ones would use the cached resolution data.
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DNS resolution has to be done before the first ping can be issued. It therefore has no bearing on ping times.

The only thing you can do to lower them in your own home is avoid wifi and connect directly to the router doing the ADSL connection.
 
or move yourself closer to the ping destination :)

(Changing ISP can do that without moving physically)
 
What is your ping?

Wired will have faster ping than wireless.

If you get near 20 or just below, not much you can do as that seems about the limit
 
Thanks for all your replies guys,my ping is usually around the 50 mark & i have a wired network in the house for mine & the wife,s pc,no wifi.:):thumbs:
 
Our ping on a wired network is 19ms everytime.

At home on wireless I get 37ms. The PS3 is wired in so I get 19ms
 
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