4G vs ADSL ping

[splinter09]

hello
i already have a 4G (very good signal) router download speed average 2.5 mb and i get pings around 180 to 160 lowest ping i got 150 but very rare so im thinking about moving to 4mb ADSL which download speed is almost 500 kb or 450 kb

so will i get a better ping? and by how much better i know its hard to know but give me a close number

 

[kawininjazx]

Probably close to 100ms ping on dsl

 

[ko888]

I'm on ADSL and I'm getting 81ms.

 

[splinter09]

I'm on ADSL and I'm getting 81ms.

thx for reply but it didnt help...im on comparison here between 4g and cable

 

[ko888]

I'm on ADSL and I'm getting 81ms.

thx for reply but it didnt help...im on comparison here between 4g and cable

I am using CAT6A Ethernet cable between my ADSL modem and router and between the router and my computer pinging gaming server 162.213.61.57.

 

[bill001g]

What are you trying to ping. Best would be to ping the ISP router which should be the default gateway that the ISP gives your router. You could also try 8.8.8.8 but there may be some extra latency depending exactly where that server is.

In general a 4g connection will have much worse latency than a ADSL connection or any wired connection on the first hop. For many wired type of internet connection you get 10-15ms in the first hop. Even LTE connections which have the lowest latency have 30-40 and many times over 100ms to the first hop. This is partially due to mobile broadband connections favoring the mobility over performance. They have a lot of overhead in them to allow things like seamless switching of cell towers.

Now ping/latency is not the same thing as bandwidth. To a point high latency can limit your download speed but not at the slower rates you are talking about. A couple hundred extra ms on a 300mbit connection would be significant on a small say under 10m connection there is much less impact. Now mobile broadband also has much more packet loss and that will greatly increase the download time no matter how fast it is or how much ping times you get.