High ping times with the touch.
anyone have high ping times with the touch?
All my devices are wireless and i'm getting 3ms a ping for the devices, but my touch is ranging from 100ms to 700ms ping times.
It's very slow over wireless sometimes, but then sometimes it goes to normal request time.
Resetting the ipod tends to fix this issue for a day or two, but eventually it starts to lag again in terms of latency. Maybe its a bottle neck, or wifi card just dropping pings and requests due to lack of speed and it cant take the web page at what its pushing it at ?
Iphone has the same problem sometimes.
REport your findings and ping times please. Peace
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Pos_user] at [2007-11-11 20:53:07]
# 1 Re: High ping times with the touch.
If yer on a G WLAN, be sure none of the devices are running B. If the AP let u set for G only, do it.
# 2 Re: High ping times with the touch.
Old thread, I know, but I see the same latency behavior.
However, one thing i've noticed is that for the first 10 seconds or so after enabling WiFi and connecting to a network, pings to the touch are in the 1 - 3 ms range constant, then suddenly take a dive after 10 seconds or so. This happens on every network I connect to. On my wireless AP at work, I can connect and ping it fine and browse for around 10 seconds, then suddenly begin getting around 70% packet loss, which makes even browsing impossible. I had to replace my wireless access point at home because of similar behavior, but it was not near as bad. I'm now running a Netgear WGR614 at home. Latency is still all over the place but bandwidth is normal and browsing is just slightly slower than my desktop machines.
Another thing i've noticed is that latency will return to the 1 - 3 ms range when downloading youtube videos or content heavy pages in safari. As soon as it's finished downloading, latency returns to a very unstable state, as mentioned by the OP.
I'm interesting in finding out if this behavior is apparent across ALL iPod touches, or if this is a hardware issue with a small number of them. If not a hardware issue, i'm curious as to whether or not this is behavior is due to power management functions of the WiFi chipset.
If anybody would like to do some simple ping tests with their touch and post back here with the results, that would be awesome.
