Finally getting Full Fibre broadband!

[Kin Hell]

Glad it went well.

Pull up a DOS prompt type "ping www.google.co.uk -t" & look @ the ping time returns. - CTRL-C will break the ping cycle & then tell you your average ping.

Waddya get?

Then from the same DOS prompt, type "tracert www.google.co.uk", screenshot the DOS window & paste on here.

I'm just being really curious here H.

[Harrison]

I'm not near a PC at the moment, but testing Thursday only via Wifi the ping was between 5 - 7ms. And Jitter was 1 - 3ms. On Ethernet it was 1 - 3ms ping rate.

[J T]

Cripes that's fast. I've been on full fibre for about a year but they have not opened up speeds anywhere near that fast. Although other than downloading games, I really don't cane my connection anymore. I haven't even bothered running any cables, wifi is good enough for right now.

[Harrison]

I was actually thinking about the speed and most of the time it's far faster then anyone will never need. But it removes so many issues we have just got used to, such as leaving a PC or console on for hours to download or update something. Or waiting for something to buffer before starting to watch it. That was still a thing of fttc for 4K films.

It all but removes all bandwith bottlenecks to allow the technology to work as intended. The PS5 f.ex. feels more fluid and snappy.

I've tested cloud gaming with Strada, Xbox cloud gaming and PSNow, and all finally work fluidly with no stuttering or buffering. Even games like Control ran just as if running on a local PC or Xbox. Quite impressed and if everyone were on such fast connections I can see the argument for cloud gaming far more realistic. But in still not 100% easy eh the idea that I wouldn't own any of the games.

[Harrison]

I downloaded a couple of PS5 games this morning and quickly used the PS5's network test to see what it was now reporting the fibre speed as being.

Pleased to see it showing as 874.5 Mbps, which is close enough to the 900, especially as the PS4 and 5 are renouned for not being too accurate on download speed reporting.

Disregard the upload speed. I think the PS5 had a funny moment as it took ages to report the upload speed. Everything else on the network is showing it as 110Mbps and is uploading at that speed.

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[Kin Hell]

<snip> On Ethernet it was 1 - 3ms ping rate.

Crikey H! - I just got a Boner!

C'mon BT... we NEED this in Cornwall.