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Good BroadBand Speeds but Poor Ping results!

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Posted December 14, 2012 at 12:44PM

I have asked my ISP about slow web pages and poor ping results they have advised the the ping results are ok, but the time for the first hop between the PC and my Routes is where the worst of the time delay occurs, and have advised that I look at my Anti-Virus and Firewall programmes as they may be the reason for the delays. I am using ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus and Firewall (the all in one programme) Spybot and Spyware Blaster, also DoNotTrackMe and Rapport in Firefox. The OS is Windows 7 Home Premium, 64 bit. The PC seems to be slowing down in general, I have run cclean and this has found many problems with the Resgister and cleared them out. Does anyone have some ideas for checking programmes which may slow the ping times. My Broadband speed is averaging 5200mbps which is very good! So some thing must be causing the problems, but what?

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Posted January 5, 2013 at 2:57PM

I'm a bit wary of scanmyspeed.com as on Whois I get this info:

We have 12 historical records for Scanmyspeed.com. The oldest record dates back more than 1 year. There are at least 6 significant changes. None of the records publish domain name ownership data; they all use a privacy or proxy service.

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Posted January 6, 2013 at 12:00PM

I found I get different ping test results depending on which of my routers I use.

Using the ping test that was at speedtest.net (the ping test seems to have been taken off the site now), both of my 3com routers would fail the ping test. Whereas the Thomson TG585 (suuplied by my ISP) would pass the test with flying colours. In spite of that I use one of the 3com routers as, in practice, it seems to work fine and I prefer the flexibility that the 3com routers give in terms of set-up and security.

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Posted January 6, 2013 at 12:31PM

PCA site really excelling today. Now my postings are showing as anonymous (the above has no poster name on it [at the moment], will this one?

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