diff --git a/plugins.d/ping b/plugins.d/ping
index 97bdb35..f7a7eae 100755
--- a/plugins.d/ping
+++ b/plugins.d/ping
@@ -2,21 +2,24 @@
 
 # This plugin requires the opkg package perl to be installed.
 
-host="maff.scot"
+# Sky's primary DNS recursor, should be as close as possible to latency from the home to the packet network
+host="90.207.238.97"
+timeout=1
+count=5
 
 if [ "$1" == "config" ];then
 	echo "multigraph ping_lat
-graph_title ADSL latency to $host
+graph_title ADSL latency
 graph_scale no
 graph_args --base 1000 -l 0
 graph_vlabel latency (ms)
 graph_category network
-graph_info This graph shows latency statistics to $host
+graph_info This graph shows connection latency, testing against $host
 ping.label $host
 ping.min 0
 
 multigraph ping_loss
-graph_title Packet loss to $host
+graph_title Packet loss
 graph_scale no
 graph_args --base 1000 -l 0
 graph_vlabel loss (%)
@@ -27,4 +30,4 @@ loss.colour COLOUR15"
 	exit 0
 fi
 
-/bin/ping -c 2 $host|/usr/bin/perl -ne '/^round.*=.*?\/([0-9\.]+)\// and print "multigraph ping_lat\nping.value $1\n";/ ([0-9]+)% packet loss/ and print "multigraph ping_loss\nloss.value $1\n"'
+/bin/ping -c $count -W $timeout $host|/usr/bin/perl -ne '/^round.*=.*?\/([0-9\.]+)\// and print "multigraph ping_lat\nping.value $1\n";/ ([0-9]+)% packet loss/ and print "multigraph ping_loss\nloss.value $1\n"'