I have a issue with my internet connection and I want to know if the ping response times can be affected by the use of internet. Let me explain, when I turn on my computer and no other device is using the internet connection, and I do nothing more than ping www.google.com y have the next output
$ ping www.google.com
PING www.google.com (173.194.42.113): 48 data bytes
56 bytes from 173.194.42.113: icmp_seq=0 ttl=49 time=76.820 ms
56 bytes from 173.194.42.113: icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=73.923 ms
56 bytes from 173.194.42.113: icmp_seq=2 ttl=49 time=87.032 ms
56 bytes from 173.194.42.113: icmp_seq=3 ttl=49 time=75.011 ms
56 bytes from 173.194.42.113: icmp_seq=4 ttl=49 time=122.664 ms
56 bytes from 173.194.42.113: icmp_seq=5 ttl=49 time=76.388 ms
56 bytes from 173.194.42.113: icmp_seq=6 ttl=49 time=79.530 ms
56 bytes from 173.194.42.113: icmp_seq=7 ttl=49 time=78.308 ms
and so...
But when I start using the browser or the mail client or some other thing, lets see.. opening youtube in the browser the ping response times changes abruptly
56 bytes from 173.194.42.113: icmp_seq=85 ttl=49 time=214.825 ms
56 bytes from 173.194.42.113: icmp_seq=86 ttl=49 time=932.497 ms
56 bytes from 173.194.42.113: icmp_seq=87 ttl=49 time=596.405 ms
56 bytes from 173.194.42.113: icmp_seq=88 ttl=49 time=299.450 ms
56 bytes from 173.194.42.113: icmp_seq=89 ttl=49 time=1628.341 ms
56 bytes from 173.194.42.113: icmp_seq=90 ttl=49 time=1440.310 ms
56 bytes from 173.194.42.113: icmp_seq=91 ttl=49 time=1219.659 ms
56 bytes from 173.194.42.113: icmp_seq=92 ttl=49 time=762.968 ms
And In general the internet experience becomes "slower" for any other activity apart from opening youtube, when youtube is full loaded, the ping times become normal again (under 100 ms)
This is just with my computer, just with my browser just using two tabs, youtube and some other random web page just to test, obviously when other host connect to the router and try to reach some page in internet the results are worst, I have reached 4000 ms of ping when a youtube video is playing.
So my question... It is normal for ping response times (to some internet site) to change in that way when internet connection is used ?