Network adapter latency: HTC Hero vs Samsung Galaxy Y

[silmeria]

Hi,
I recently got a Samsung Galaxy Y with a contract...I had no intention of getting a new phone, so I chose the crappiest one.

However, anything's better than an HTC Hero, I thought. In most respects, the Galaxy Y is equal or better to the Hero - but its internet performance seems a lot worse (which is basically the entire point of a smart phone...a smart phone that can't conveniently use the internet is basically crap to me).

Network Latency for the Samsung Galaxy Y varies considerably (between atrocious and intolerable).

I'm testing with Fing - pinging google.co.uk:

SGY: 130-1000, average 500ms
HTCH: 70-80ms.

While the bandwidth is presumably the same (governed largely by the service provider, I assume), the latency is making everything ridiculously slow.

Does anyone have any tips to decrease the SGY's latency, or is the hardware just of a lower quality?

Could stock apps be constantly using data? I've killed as many as I could before testing.

The SIM card used while testing was the same, and the phones were put in the same location.

The SGY also seems to switch between H and <n>G for various values of n, constantly, which probably isn't helping.

Anyone have any thoughts?

Thanks

I haven't tried using WiFi, because I don't have a reliable WiFi service at home (it varies from minute to minute too much to test lol).

[Anaya Adams]

Well according to me the ping time of the HTCH set is far more better and faster than the SGY set. Hence what you should be preferring is to opt for Android cell phones of HTCH apart from SGY ones.