UTV Broadband (how is it now)

Spunog UIE

A friend is getting UTV broadband soon. Just wondering how it is, have they improved at all? Remember constant posts on this board about downtime and crappy pings.

So has it improved?

Gid.

mike65

We've had a couple of upgrades since my "Clicksilver Users Gather Here" thread and pings and speeds have improved.

C:\WINDOWS> tracert www.boards.ie

Tracing route to www.boards.ie [82.195.131.130]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <10 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 32 ms 32 ms 32 ms 195.218.116.25
3 33 ms 32 ms 32 ms UTV-DUB-fastethernet0-0.116.218.195.in-addr.arpa
[195.218.116.1]
4 30 ms 32 ms 32 ms 195.218.126.178
5 33 ms 30 ms 34 ms 195.218.112.2
6 42 ms 42 ms 43 ms 195.92.55.134
7 43 ms 43 ms 44 ms pos1-0.ber-1.r18.telh.as5388.net [195.92.55.160]

8 47 ms 45 ms 44 ms 195.50.91.65
9 43 ms 41 ms 42 ms ge-11-0.ipcolo1.London1.Level3.net [212.187.131.
39]
10 57 ms 54 ms 55 ms 80.253.124.21
11 55 ms 53 ms 55 ms www.boards.ie [82.195.131.130]

C:\WINDOWS> ping www.boards.ie

Pinging www.boards.ie [82.195.131.130] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 82.195.131.130: bytes=32 time=57ms TTL=54
Reply from 82.195.131.130: bytes=32 time=55ms TTL=54
Reply from 82.195.131.130: bytes=32 time=55ms TTL=54
Reply from 82.195.131.130: bytes=32 time=56ms TTL=54

Ping statistics for 82.195.131.130:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 55ms, Maximum = 57ms, Average = 55ms

Not spectacular but perfectly good enough for me!

Mike.

Moriarty

C:\>tracert www.boards.ie

Tracing route to www.boards.ie [82.195.131.129]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms <internal ip>
2 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms <internal ip>
3 3 ms 2 ms 2 ms <internal ip>
4 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms <internal ip>
5 30 ms 28 ms 26 ms <first utv hop>
6 33 ms 30 ms 29 ms UTV-DUB-fastethernet0-0.116.218.195.in-addr.arpa [195.218.116.1]
7 29 ms 28 ms 28 ms 195.218.126.178
8 28 ms 30 ms 28 ms 195.218.112.2
9 38 ms 39 ms 39 ms 195.92.55.134
10 39 ms 39 ms 39 ms pos1-0.ber-1.r18.telh.as5388.net [195.92.55.160]
11 38 ms 39 ms 40 ms 195.50.91.65
12 41 ms 40 ms 39 ms ge-9-0.ipcolo1.London1.Level3.net [212.187.131.147]
13 55 ms 54 ms 51 ms 80.253.124.21
14 54 ms 53 ms 51 ms sneezy.hosting365.ie [82.195.128.8]
15 54 ms 54 ms 54 ms www.boards.ie [82.195.131.129]

Trace complete.

C:\>

C:\>tracert www.jolt.co.uk

Tracing route to clarity.jolt.co.uk [195.149.21.11]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms <internal ip>
2 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms <internal ip>
3 3 ms 2 ms 2 ms <internal ip>
4 20 ms 3 ms 3 ms <internal ip>
5 29 ms 29 ms 28 ms <first utv hop>
6 30 ms 29 ms 28 ms UTV-DUB-fastethernet0-0.116.218.195.in-addr.arpa [195.218.116.1]
7 29 ms 28 ms 29 ms 195.218.126.178
8 29 ms 29 ms 29 ms 195.218.126.178
9 39 ms 40 ms 40 ms 195.92.55.134
10 38 ms 41 ms 42 ms pos1-0.ber-1.r18.telc.as5388.net [195.92.55.156]
11 40 ms 43 ms 43 ms lon1-9.nildram.net [195.66.224.59]
12 38 ms 39 ms 41 ms jolt-gw.nildram.net [195.149.20.126]
13 39 ms 41 ms 40 ms clarity.jolt.co.uk [195.149.21.11]

Trace complete.

C:\>

UTV still don't have peering with other irish isps, so all traffic to ireland has to bounce over to london and then back again. Because of this, if you're looking to play specifically on irish servers you'll get pings of ~50ms instead of the usual high 30s. As you see above, pings to the UK (and anywhere else) are as good as you'll get with any other isp.

Download speeds are consistently high, >50k/sec.

Terra

I usually play games on uk servers and I find the pings fairly good.

Although I don't play that much at peak times

Spunog UIE

thanks, that seems a lot better alright from the last time I looked at it.