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Originally posted by pyramid:
Correct, Ping is not tied to Bandwidth, it is latency. Your ping can be affected by many things, most notably the # of hops between you and the host and the amount of traffic on the routers and data lines you are sharing to get to your destination. Even a T1 connection can have a high ping if it is routed poorly or it's boundary routers are busy with traffic.
That's what I thought too, but, then why is it typical 56k modems usually give much higher ping than broadband access such as adsl or cable? it has much lower throughput so less data can be transfered at a time, but why does it get there slower too?