Ping Question

[AMD Lover]

So my desktop with a Killer E2200 gets a Ping of 34ms however when i switch over to my other desktop with a Realtek NIC it can go as high as 120ms. Is the bad NIC causing this to happen or is it something else?

[xox]

Drivers probably, my Atheros NIC has a ping of less than 1ms (LAN)

[technovore]

depends on what you're pinging to...

[FireFox]

I have a piece of shit no-name USB wireless adaptor and I get below 40ms most of the time, I thought the Killer E2200 was something special?

[AMD Lover]

I have a piece of shit no-name USB wireless adaptor and I get below 40ms most of the time, I thought the Killer E2200 was something special?

 

 

depends on what you're pinging to...

 

 

Drivers probably, my Atheros NIC has a ping of less than 1ms (LAN)

I'm pinging to a server not another computer or to the modem

[werto165]

I get 16ms ping with tethering on my phone, so that seems quite high.

[xox]

I'm pinging to a server not another computer or to the modem

When doing a test on what is the culprit, you have to do a test on LAN as well, simply as a control.

 

For example, you are asking why your motherboard Ethernet port is so slow. Firstly, ping a random server (e.g: google) in CMD with both cards, then ping any device in your home (e.g: smart TV) with both cards and see actually what happens.

 

Perhaps I wanted to see the latency of my WiFi. I'd firstly set up my laptop on ethernet as the device that I was pinging.

Then, I'd ping it with my ethernet card

Then, I'd ping it over WiFi.

Then, I'd ping Google over WiFi

Then I'd ping Google over Ethernet

After that, I'd find the average of the ping times; CMD returns 3 separate ping times for each time you ping.

Record it in a table, and I'm done, I now know the extent of how faster cabled internet is and it would be a productive way to spend an hour or so.

 

The code in CMD is:

 

"ping [ip adress]"

 

And don't rely on Speedtest.net ping if that's what you are doing, it's abysmal.