topic Re: EE high ping and jitter on Cloudflare? in Broadband & Landline

EE high ping and jitter on Cloudflare?

ILikeCoffee — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:38:50 GMT

Hi all, I just wanted to check if this is normal.

So my set up is EE FTTP 900Mbs > ONT > Cat6 > EE Smart Hub Pro > Cat6 > PC

Sites like speedtest.net constantly shows 3-4ms to London servers and my full speed but Cloudflare speed test shows quite high latency and jitter, is this the same for anyone else, just wondering if this is related to EE network or the hub I'm using. Are there anymore tests I can do to find out?

Re: EE high ping and jitter on Cloudflare?

JimM11 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:52:19 GMT

@ILikeCoffee Not really, do you not trust the speedtest.net server's then, although there are many different speed test's out there EE only go with the app which is based on fast.com!

Re: EE high ping and jitter on Cloudflare?

XRaySpeX — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:45:25 GMT

Yes, I am not impressed by Cloudflare:CloudFlare Speed Test

compared with ThinkBroadBand:ThinkBroadBand Speed Test

& Speedtext.net:Speedtest.Net Speed Test

& to get back to basics, ping bbc.co.uk :

Pinging bbc.co.uk [151.101.64.81] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 151.101.64.81: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=58
Reply from 151.101.64.81: bytes=32 time=5ms TTL=58
Reply from 151.101.64.81: bytes=32 time=5ms TTL=58
Reply from 151.101.64.81: bytes=32 time=5ms TTL=58
Ping statistics for 151.101.64.81:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 4ms, Maximum = 5ms, Average = 4ms

Re: EE high ping and jitter on Cloudflare?

ILikeCoffee — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:47:11 GMT

Hm bit surpised Cloudflare is under performing, people are normally saying how good they are for stuff like DNS (1.1.1.1)

ThinkBroadband, Speedtest.net and CMD BBC ping results:

Pinging bbc.co.uk [2a04:4e42:600::81] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 2a04:4e42:600::81: time=2ms
Reply from 2a04:4e42:600::81: time=2ms
Reply from 2a04:4e42:600::81: time=3ms
Reply from 2a04:4e42:600::81: time=2ms

Ping statistics for 2a04:4e42:600::81:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 2ms, Maximum = 3ms, Average = 2ms

Re: EE high ping and jitter on Cloudflare?

XRaySpeX — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:49:12 GMT

Cloudflare may very well be a well thought of DNS provider but their speedtest, while complicated, seems to be lacking.

Re: EE high ping and jitter on Cloudflare?

JimM11 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:08:55 GMT

@ILikeCoffee Nothing wrong with the Fibrenest server anyway.

https://www.speedtest.net/result/18972543367

Cloudflare is reasonable just now.

Cloudflare just before 5pm

Think linked.

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/1773853543281750455