How are Irish broadband providers for low latency?

AMKC · 11-03-2025 03:28PM #1

I need one with 15mbps and up and less than 4ms latency.

pizzahead77 · 11-03-2025 04:30PM

4ms latency to where???

I have 500MB fibre with 4ms to Microsoft, 2ms to Google and 4ms to Cloudflare

Lewis_Benson · 11-03-2025 04:32PM

What are you pinging and what is the current latency?

banie01 · 11-03-2025 04:44PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058402107/how-are-irish-broadband-providers-for-low-latency

Latency is very much server dependent, along with hop count. As others have already said, a test on Microsoft might return 2ms, a test to AN other could be multiples more.

What service/server are you using that requires such low latency? And can always guarantee it's reachable via a single hop?

DopeTech · 11-03-2025 04:59PM

In general any of the Fibre to the home providers will have similar low latency. Lower than FTTC or Virgins part fibre network. I'm also curious as to what you need such low latency for?!

purifol0 · 11-03-2025 05:07PM

Lads ye need soft eyes, the OP doesnt know anything except what they've heard or been told and that should be obvious from the question. So if you want to help, then do, instead of being a pedant.

OP all wired broadband providers will provide low latency unless its mobile broadband (router needs a sim card).

SIRO is the best in terms of latency, with virgin media DOCSIS/cable broadband and Eir's older DSL phone line broadband being a close second.

So anyone selling fiber to the home (FTTH/SIRO) is your best bet for low latency, and for upload speed it depends but they all exceed 15mb/s. They wont tell you what the upload speed is at all actually, but its 10% of the download speed for all the Siro providers and about 15% for Virgin Media.

dam099 · 11-03-2025 09:10PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123254341#Comment_123254341

And where do OpenEir and NBI sit in your ranking? AFAIK they would be equivalent to SIRO.

Also I don't think ping is entirely dependent on FTTH vs DSL vs Cable or even which FTTH wholesaler, your ISP's backhaul and peering arrangements will also factor in.

OP on Vodafone SIRO right now I get 4ms to Microsoft (but for my first few tests was getting 13ms as it was going through 13 hops and ending up in London for some weird reason). For Google I am getting 3-4ms and for Cloudflare 13ms.

Gonzo · 11-03-2025 11:02PM

Eir's Network on OpenEir has amazing pings and has always had since the introduction of FTTH.

I get 1ms for Google.

Pinging www.google.ie [2a00:1450:400b:c01::5e] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 2a00:1450:400b:c01::5e: time=1ms
Reply from 2a00:1450:400b:c01::5e: time=1ms
Reply from 2a00:1450:400b:c01::5e: time=1ms
Reply from 2a00:1450:400b:c01::5e: time=1ms

Ping statistics for 2a00:1450:400b:c01::5e:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 1ms, Maximum = 1ms, Average = 1ms

and about 10ms to UK servers

Pinging uk2.thg.com [185.217.104.227] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 185.217.104.227: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=244
Reply from 185.217.104.227: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=244
Reply from 185.217.104.227: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=244
Reply from 185.217.104.227: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=244

Ping statistics for 185.217.104.227:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 10ms, Maximum = 11ms, Average = 10ms

The main reason some people would want latency is low would be for online gaming. Pings can't go much lower than this.

How are Irish broadband providers for low latency?

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