Great Internet Speed - Not so great latency

Great Internet Speed - Not so great latency
Hi,

Are you suffering from connectivity issues and lag when playing online? Your Ping of 51 is fine for online games generally.

Did you get your test results from the Xbox or a internet speed test website?

Ping is the time data takes to go to a destination and return. Ping doesn't need a fast connection to get a better result, it's the distance that matters. I use
www.speedtest.net to check my connection speed. It's more reliable as it tests a local server near me rather than a Microsoft data centre that could be hundreds (perhaps thousands) of
miles away.

When I test my local server I get a ping of 9, great, my connection is working fine. I'm from the United Kingdom, if I ping a server in New York USA my ping is 90. This is fine too, it's 3,500 miles away.

:)