Question on cable internet latency comparison

[Grooveriding]

So I have been noticing something odd with my internet connections. Right now I am in the midst of transitioning from one cable internet provider to another, which leaves me with two active internet connections for a short while. Both are cable internet.

Where I live there is one big provider, Rogers, and a smaller provider, Teksavvy - that is a third party internet provider. They pay fees to Rogers and are allowed to use Rogers' back end, but have their own cross-links and routing hardware installed at the various neighborhood area nodes.

Right now I am mid switch and have been using both modems depending on what I am doing. I rent a BF3 server that is located in the city I live in. Using my original modem from Teksavvy that is getting deactivated, it is a DOCSIS 2.0 Motorola SB5100 with a 30Mbps/1Mbps profile - I get a 10-20ms ping to the server. Using my new modem which is a DOCSIS 3.0 Cisco DPC3825 modem/router with a 50Mbps/2Mbps profile; I get a 40-50ms ping.

I am just curious where the slowdown is coming from and if I can fix it. Could it be the modem/router on the DOCSIS 3.0 connection making it slower ? Or is this related to their hardware at the node introducing latency that my other connection didn't have ?

Thanks.

 

[spidey07]

It's probably routing on congestion along the way. Not anything you can do about it. The smaller provider likely has a lot less traffic on their network. You can do a traceroute to see where it's at, but it's going to be in their network.

 

[bret]

I agree with spidey, and your better off keeping the d3.0 modem. 40-50 ping still isn't that bad at all

 

[RadiclDreamer]

I agree with spidey, and your better off keeping the d3.0 modem. 40-50 ping still isn't that bad at all

40-50 is perfectly fine for online gaming. It starts to get bad for me around 100