Does Upload and/or Download Speed Affect Ping?

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Does upload and/or download speed affect your ping? and do ISP's bottleneck your ping like they do upload and download? My ping is typically around 25-35 at different times throughout the day, to the serve pingtest.net picks. I understand your ping changes depending on how far the server/host youre pinging to is. But why is it that some ISPs have better pings in general, example: Verizon FiOS & Google Fiber? And finally would upgrading my package affect my ping? I have Charter Communications' "Plus" package which is 30up/4down (I usually test more like 50up/4.5down). They offer a 100up/5down. All I'm worried about is ping. Would it make a difference to upgrade? and how much? It's a big jump in price.

Sorry for how long this was, but I'm just curious :)
 
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Here is the technical stufff http://

as said ping is just a test determine the reach ability of a certain server or an IP.so if you use OFC cables you ping value is likely to be low as compared to the common copper cables(assuming that the ip you want to reach has a good quality internet connection)Ask your isp to provide you with better to reduce noise margin and decrease ping.

and also a ping of 35ms is tolerable i think.:ange:
I am in India i got the worst ISP in the world:pt1cable: "BSNL" :pt1cable:i get a ping from 100ms-500ms and yet i manage :lol:
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Ping in simple words can be said as just the quality of your internet.Like the amount of noise(unwanted signals) in your required signal

you may have a high speed internet and yet a large ping

or

you may have a low speed internet and yet a low ping

so the answer IS NO.

if you want the technical stuff fell free to ask
 
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Yeah man I'd love to hear the technicals and if that's the case then how would I figure out which of the ISPs in my area have the best ping? Charter is by far the best as far as upload/download goes, but like you said they don't affect it.
 
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Here is the technical stufff http://

as said ping is just a test determine the reach ability of a certain server or an IP.so if you use OFC cables you ping value is likely to be low as compared to the common copper cables(assuming that the ip you want to reach has a good quality internet connection)Ask your isp to provide you with better to reduce noise margin and decrease ping.

and also a ping of 35ms is tolerable i think.:ange:
I am in India i got the worst ISP in the world:pt1cable: "BSNL" :pt1cable:i get a ping from 100ms-500ms and yet i manage :lol:
 
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100-500 ping :heink: I would cry. lol 35 is completely tolerable, but a 10 would be heaven :love: lol but i assume I'll have to deal with what i have.
 
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The only ping you can realistically even think about getting anything done with is the one between your house and the ISP. If you run traceroute this is generally hop 2 if you have a single router or hop 1 if you are directly connecting to a modem.

In most cases this is very small a few MS. The vast majority of this delay is based on how the technology really works. With things like cable modems you need to ask permission to transmit. So even though you think you sent the ping packet there is a slight delay while the modem gets approval to send it. You will see much higher delays in thing broadband LTE because of all the artificial delays being introduced.

Pretty much as long when you ping the first ISP device you get no packet loss and the delay does not jump around this is likely the best it is going to get. Then again this number is normally well under 10ms on most broadband.

The place where you get the vast majority of you latency is within the magic "cloud" that makes up the internet. You find all kinds of strangeness based on contractual agreements and other government regulations. For example say you use ISP1 and the location you are going to is ISP2. Both you and the server you want to use is say in atlanta. You would think it would be very fast. Problem is if ISP1 and ISP2 have a agreement to cross each others traffic and they only have this cross point in say chicago you traffic would have to go all way to chicago and back to basically get across the street. When you start getting 4,5,6 ISP involved in the path between you and the server it gets messy fast.
 
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