Ping/Latency way higher Gigafast 900

[htyaH]

I used to get 5ms ping to London (from Coventry), now I am being auto connected to Edinburugh and I get 15 ping to there, when I try to speedtest to London or even right next to me in Leicester I am getting pings above 22...I called in and they just said "they added new servers and there's nothing much we can do"...

any help?

[dgagola]

I’ve managed to fix it. You just need to manually change the ipv4 address . If you live in Birmingham change it to 192.168.1.84 and then copy all the other settings over exactly the same my ping has gone back down to 8ms thanks 

[Alvie]

I don't get how this would work? Are you setting the router's gateway IP manually?

[Ripshod]

That's not even an Internet IP, it's reserved for internal (LAN) networks. 

[n87]

Can you clarify, the external gateway upstream is assigned automatically and listed on the Status Page below the Internet IPv4 Address, the gateway in question is a public IP address, 192.168.1.84 is an private local address, i suspect what you have changed has by coincidence fixed your problem

[Jayach]

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@n87 wrote:

Can you clarify, the external gateway upstream is assigned automatically and listed on the Status Page below the Internet IPv4 Address, the gateway in question is a public IP address, 192.168.1.84 is an private local address, i suspect what you have changed has by coincidence fixed your problem

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Agreed, but how changing a local address can affect latency I don't know.

@dgagola wrote:

I’ve managed to fix it. You just need to manually change the ipv4 address . If you live in Birmingham change it to 192.168.1.84 and then copy all the other settings over exactly the same my ping has gone back down to 8ms thanks 

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And what are the other settings you are copying, and where are you copying them to?

[Alvie]

I'm guessing the router either rebooted or something triggered a refresh for it to get a new IP assigned 

[dgagola]

Hi all , no I have changed it each time the reason I found out about if is when I connected via wifi it changed my ipv4 address from 132 to 100 and that lowered the ping from 32 to 20 then I found out the Birmingham one was 84 and that has lowered it furthers. If I change it back to 132 it’s 32 again . Subnet mask 255.255.255.0 and other three below settings so primary secondary 192.168.1.1

[prs1000]

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@dgagola wrote:

Hi all , no I have changed it each time the reason I found out about if is when I connected via wifi it changed my ipv4 address from 132 to 100 and that lowered the ping from 32 to 20 then I found out the Birmingham one was 84 and that has lowered it furthers. If I change it back to 132 it’s 32 again . Subnet mask 255.255.255.0 and other three below settings so primary secondary 192.168.1.1

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Hi, do you mean you changed it when you play FIFA?

[Jayach]

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@dgagola wrote:

Hi all , no I have changed it each time the reason I found out about if is when I connected via wifi it changed my ipv4 address from 132 to 100 

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That's because the ethernet and Wi-Fi adapters will have different local IP addresses.

From what you say, it sounds like the extra latency is being introduced by your local network. Different local addresses should not produce different pings.

[Ripshod]

Lower ping on WiFi compared to LAN would indicate you either have a faulty cable or some other device trying to act as a dhcp server (possibly a switch), or even a miconfigured access point/extender - or any combination of the above.