What should your pings be on a LAN?

[Medellon]

I have a wired ethernet connection and I'm wondering what a good ping time would be on a home LAN.

 

[Smilin]

<10ms

 

[titanmiller]

I would say anywhere between 1-4ms, it will mostly depend on the how fast your switch is.

 

[OverVolt]

>1ms here

 

[BurnItDwn]

between my windows box and linux box .. using cheap 100BT nics, cheap cat5e cable, and a cheap dlink switch, I get an average of 0.32ms \


corrected for typo

 

[SgtBuddy]

My desktop, to a node 3.5 miles away over the company LAN.

<10ms

 

[Medellon]

Hmmm...I was getting 20ms over a LAN with a hub under Unreal Tournament. The PC is just about 25 feet away, isn't this a little high?

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: Medellon
Hmmm...I was getting 20ms over a LAN with a hub under Unreal Tournament. The PC is just about 25 feet away, isn't this a little high?

That is a tad high, but still reasonable. If the network is saturated, and depending on if you use a hub or switch, the ping times go up.

 

[GeneralS]

Moreover, Unreal Tournament's ping times are notoriously inaccurate. Make sure you're using some sort of real app to measure ping times.