If their decent 2000mbps ones their better than using WiFi, but always run a proper cable when possible of course.
Noisy equipment, LED lamps and cheap electrical goods plugged into your ring main can reduce the efficiency of Ethernet over mains adaptors. Only use if there is no way of running a cable in.
Really wish ping times were as good as others in this part of the UK, must be some poor routing yayzi are using.
Noticed back in October on the BQM monitoring that a couple of times ping times did drop to around 5/6ms for a short period of time before going back to around 14/15.
This was 31st Oct when I set up my BQM monitor - I set it up because that was the start of the issues around pings. But it clearly shows that between 7pm and ~9:30pm pings more than halved and went down to around 6/7ms. So it must be possible…
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Yep, I wonder if yayzi can look into this after 6th Jan once the Xmas break comes to an end.
Ever since migration my wired connection went from 5ms or 6ms to 9ms or 10ms 
Just noticed something, doing an ip address lookup of the first hop after the router on a tracert shows the location as blackpool, I wonder if that’s why my ping isn’t nowehere near as good as others, even though I’m in the south west is my connection being routed up to blackpool first & then back down to london!
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Shouldn’t show Blackpool as the first hop, we physically have no network there. Our network comes out of Telehouse North.
It might however show the IP location as Blackpool/Fleetwood as that’s the area we are based.
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Just wish you could find out what’s keeping ping times from being lower, as the graph posted by Mike a few posts above shows it’s possible for myself & him (we only live a few miles apart) to have much lower pings, my BQM graph for the same date & time as his showed the same reduction in ping.
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I’ve got a really strange primary DNS that looks like an actual IP that ties to Blackpool also I didn’t charge it to that though also still on the 213 range DNS starts 217 for some reason. I thought primary DNS is usually 8.8.8.8
Never mind it was on auto changed it back