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Hey everyone, been reading around here and decided to sign up =)

I'm wondering if someone knows how much network cards actually do when determining pings. I have a 25mbps connection, clean computer. No extra processes running besides the mandatory ones. But I'm using a integrated realtek pcie card.

My ping from West Canada to Europe is about 217ms according to pingplotter. Any help appreciated.

Unless it is badly broken, the NIC would account for less than 1 ms of ping time.

mwrickert is correct, for most cases NICs do not add/cause much latency. The only exception with some built-in network adapters would be if your CPU/IO/RAM resources (or upstream bandwidth) are being used to the max by some applications, it may introduce some delay.

I'd try to run a traceroute to your destination, and see which hop adds how much latency to the route.
Sometimes misplacing routers close to other devices (cable/dsl modems, sources of EMI) may introduce latency, coiled Cat5 network cables, etc.

However, latency usually adds up the path to your ISP and their backbones.

I hope this helps