Latency(MS) & Jitter on Fibre 76MB

[Ihatevm]

Hello guys,

Can anyone tell me their average latency (ms/ping) and jitter loss both off peak and on peak please?  Looking to join Vodafone from Virgin Media and I am really interested.

I am an avid gamer and play FPS on a tryhard level, so the above is pretty important to me.  Currently with VM 200MB and for the past month I get 1-15MB download at peak with an MS of 50-60 / 40~ jitter.

Cheers in advance guys,

Tom

[Nabs]

@Ihatevm quick question; With your current VM broadband do you use their supplier router or do you have your own? As a gamer I'd guess you've probably put a lot into your home network setup.
I only ask as Vodafone do not officially allow you to use your own router (though some claim to have been able to get it working) so this may be a problem if you do have a specific setup.

[Ihatevm]

@Nabs

I actually use their own router as a direct connection.  I used to have an independent router before it broke and never saw a problem with VM's when it actually worked.

I will be using Vodafone's own router, I believe it's fairly decent or so say the reviews?

Cheers

[Nabs]

@Ihatevm I've read mixed reviews of the Vodafone router. I think people who are just using if for straight forward internet access are getting on fine but there does appear to be some issues with it in more sophisticated network environments. If you're just plugging straight in you should be fine though.

In terms of the Speed, Latency and jitter of the FTTC broadband Vodaofne (and all others)offer; One of the main factor that will affect it will be the condition of your copper line to the cabinet, I'm sure you know that already though ;-). If you've got a good connection you should get relatively good performance though i'm not sure it would ever match a fully functioning  FTTP connection of VM. You can check what sort of speeds you can expect to get using the BT DSL checker. The latency and jitter will gradually increase as the potential speed decreases.

Habing said that I've used FTTC connections from various providers and they all seem to be around the 40ms mark for latency with jitter almost always <1ms. (currently using a connection with a 30ms latency and 0.3ms Jitter on a 55Mbps PlusNet FTTC line)

Your speeds of 1-15 seem very low, especially when your paying for 200, I'd guess it's either being throttled or there's a problem with the line or hardware. 

[Ihatevm]

@Nabs

Just ran the DSL checker from BT and they quote the same Vodafone did pretty much.

Clean: 54-70MB download and 14-20 upload, with a guarantee of 49MB download (direct connection, no other wireless connections).

I seem to remember the MS was always around the 30-55 range when I was with BT a long time ago.

As for VM, yeah the speeds are disgusting in peak, it's because the box is hugely over utilised, which they have admitted themselves and have comped me every single month for broadband since I started my contract.  Unfortunately that doesn't help when the broadband was the only item you wanted on the contract haha.

Cheers for the help.

[LostAnotherName]

49MB is not that great to be honest.

When i had fibre installed they guaranteed 69MB, when the engineer installed it he said it was much faster on his equipment but capped by my ISP/package.

I get a rock solid 73mb on speed tests.

Currently with Plusnet but switching to Vodafone next week sometime.

[Nabs]

@LostAnotherName
the actual speed you get will very much depend on your copper connection. Until ISPs start demanding BT roll out FTTP nothing much is going to change in that respect. As far as I understand you may see differing throughput values with different ISPs as they control it from their end but the actual line rate would be the same on all.
49Mbps will be more than enough for almost everything a home user may need to do at the moment. Netflix's 4K streaming, probably the most bandwidth intestive application at the moment, only requires about 25Mbps.

[Ihatevm]

The speed is fine, I am more concerned with latency numbers in and off peak