what would be causing higher latency?

[tony4704]

Hey all I just got my internet set up at my new house, and one think I noticed is that using all the same hardware (network cables and modem), if I run a continous ping test to www.google.com with my laptop, I am getting 10-15ms latency...If I disconnect the laptop and plug into my desktop and do the same thing im seeing 45-50ms latency.

I checked and ran spybot, I have nothing on the machine, its clean. What would be causing this? Any ideas?

 

[tony4704]

well just got my router set up and laptop is still pinging with 10-15ms response times (with wireless) and even tried different cables on the desktop machine. It is still pinging at 40-50 ms response times. Even at the same time as the laptop is.

Anyone have any clue what is going on here?

 

[rasczak]

Originally posted by: tony4704
well just got my router set up and laptop is still pinging with 10-15ms response times (with wireless) and even tried different cables on the desktop machine. It is still pinging at 40-50 ms response times. Even at the same time as the laptop is.

Anyone have any clue what is going on here?

could be your network card? try upgrading the drivers for your NIC.

 

[tony4704]

nope, I already tried another card on the system and its still showing same exact ping times. This is so strange...

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: tony4704
nope, I already tried another card on the system and its still showing same exact ping times. This is so strange...

It's not really that strange. All of your ping results are quite normal - ping is not a good way to measure latency. Really it's not something you should be concerned with.

What are the operating systems involved?

 

[tony4704]

They are both running windows XP ... and now that you mention it when I ran a line quality test from dslreports, the latency from both machines was the same. So maybe everything is going good.

 

[brad310]

Any physical changes? If you went from dsl to cable, i know busy neighborhoods suck bandwidth from cable. Any possible interference?