hmm now I have started seeing something a bit odd unless this is known about but I guess I will have to speak with zen about it as its not been a problem until a few days ago. Zen told me I am on a btw circuit and following a random reboot of my opnsense box a few days ago I notice my latency shot up to almost double what it would normally be.. It now seems when ipv6 is enabled and I end up on lo0-0.bng4.wh-man.zen.net.uk I get around 14ms yet when I disable ipv6 and I seem to go via vt1.cor1.lond2.ptn.zen.net.uk using just ipv4 my latency goes back to 6/7ms..
Dont wish to hi-jack the thread but this just seems odd and has never been an issue before.
any thoughts?, why is the man gateway giving me a much greater latency?
IPV6 enabled
Server: Swish Fibre - London (id = 34948)
ISP: Zen Internet Ltd
Latency: 14.63 ms (0.27 ms jitter)
Download: 916.69 Mbps (data used: 989.7 MB )
Upload: 110.97 Mbps (data used: 90.0 MB )
Packet Loss: 0.0%
Result URL:
https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/57590364-51f6-4240-876f-01fc9c154103C:\Users\ned\Downloads\sp>tracert
www.google.co.ukTracing route to
www.google.co.uk [2a00:1450:4009:81d::2003]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 16 ms <1 ms <1 ms OPNsense.localdomain ]
2 14 ms 15 ms 9 ms
lo0-0.bng4.wh-man.zen.net.uk [2a02:8010::156]
3 14 ms 15 ms 14 ms lag-8.p2.wh-man.zen.net.uk [2a02:8010:0:900::1a]
4 15 ms 14 ms 14 ms ae-3.p1.thn-lon.zen.net.uk [2a02:8010:0:b00::3e]
5 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms 2a00:1450:8136::1
6 * 14 ms 14 ms 2001:4860:0:1::54ca
7 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms 2001:4860:0:1::54c9
8 14 ms 14 ms 13 ms lhr25s31-in-x03.1e100.net [2a00:1450:4009:81d::2003]
IPV4 only via london
C:\Users\ned\Downloads\sp>speedtest -s 34948
Speedtest by Ookla
Server: Swish Fibre - London (id = 34948)
ISP: Zen Internet Ltd
Latency: 7.20 ms (0.12 ms jitter)
Download: 912.86 Mbps (data used: 831.9 MB )
Upload: 110.52 Mbps (data used: 53.9 MB )
Packet Loss: 0.0%
Result URL:
https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/9f14e202-4160-45fc-a0b0-ad648e707f79C:\Users\ned\Downloads\sp>tracert -4
www.google.co.ukTracing route to
www.google.co.uk [142.250.187.195]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms OPNsense.localdomain
2 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms
vt1.cor1.lond2.ptn.zen.net.uk [51.148.72.23]
3 7 ms 7 ms 6 ms lag-8.p2.ixn-lon.zen.net.uk [51.148.73.206]
4 6 ms 7 ms 6 ms lag-2.p2.thn-lon.zen.net.uk [51.148.73.138]
5 7 ms 7 ms 6 ms lag-2.br1.thn-lon.zen.net.uk [51.148.73.167]
6 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 72.14.223.28
7 9 ms 8 ms 8 ms 209.85.249.149
8 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 142.251.54.35
9 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms lhr25s33-in-f3.1e100.net [142.250.187.195]