Internet Service Providers and Trace Routes

Arclight

Ok Boys and Girls.

Here's a question for everybody with in the Irish gaming community (be that Quake 1/2/3)or otherwise).

What are everybodies thoughts in regard to isps.

Who gives the best service / connection speed / low ping etc?


Currently, using a Club Internet the minimum number of hops I get to Barrysworld (for example) using a 56k modem is 8 (traceroute on gamespy), using Indigo and an isdn connection I can reach barrysworld in 1
Is this because of Indigo or the isdn?

Given that renewal date is coming around real soon its time to make some decisions.

Any thoughts would be appreciated!


Arclight{TCA}

Canaboid

Boy replies

Tinet=best (Dont know if its now the same service as Eircom)
Esat=okay
Oceanfree=crap

Thats what I reckon anyhoo.

Hecate

Eircom - Best usually
Iol - v. close second
Esat - good most of the time (although the fact that their calls are flat rate more than makes up for this)
Indigo - repulsive (best isp of the year my 4rse)
Oceanfree - good idea, shame about the bandwidth
ClubI - not even worth considering

ButcherOfNog

atm i'm using tinet/eircom for playing before 10pm, and ESAT nolimits after 10pm.

from about 11pm on the pings on ESAT are oh so sweet and oh so ****ing cheap

gibbson

Ill try to answer your traceroute issue.
I think(without checking) the Club Internet is not a real provider, they are probably a sub provider. That means that they uses some providers backbone. Gives many hops. I suppose Indigo has a real provider status, and that gives them a shorter way to the resource you use. It has nothing to do with kinda access you use, it depends whos network you attach to. I tried to explian in a simple way.

Best regards
INC.Gibbson

SantaHoe

Traceroute in Gamespy is ok for a quick jobbie.

But if you want the full lowdown about the servers between you and X server, you should use the Windows 'tracert.exe' followed by either the DNS name of the server or the servers' IP Address.
(eg: tracert www.ign.ie)

It's nice, you can see just what server is fuking up your connection along the way.

WhiteWashMan

back when i was a l33+ ha><0r d00d
i uased outracce
or is that ou-trace. ant rememebr of hand

anyway, its small and simple and does the job nicely

Sonic

uotrace , nice little app

gibbson

An other nice apps is VisualRoute. You even get whois information

Nexus

eircom v.good
GT rock ure world


http://homepage.eircom.net/~clangt/

Arclight

Many Thanks to those who took both the time and effort to share their thoughts

It was a great help

Arclight

SPACE COWBOY

I've got surf no limits its all right (7/10)
Counterstrike runs without any problems.

Ocean (4/10)

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TOM

Paladin

Esat surf nolimits are ****E between 7.00 pm and 11.00 pm. Completely ****E.
Especially if ure not near Dublin.
However , after 11.00 pm the isp and phone lines are uncrowded and Esat comes into its own , giving very good and stable pings!
So use Esat late at night!

Darkedge

I never really hit anything over a 160 ping
no matter when i play on esat.

can get to 140 after 11pm