Ping spikes between BT routers?

philologos

I was pinging my site at Hosting365 the other day and then did a trace route as I noticed the pings were fluctuating between 16 and 160 or so.

Traceroute wrote:

Tracing route to uberboards.net [82.195.146.8]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms voyager.home [192.168.1.1]
2 75 ms 157 ms 153 ms bas502.cwt.esat.net [193.95.136.238]
3 70 ms 12 ms 13 ms vlan500.rt501.cwt.esat.net [193.95.136.124]
4 71 ms 13 ms 13 ms vlan51.rt001.cwt.esat.net [193.95.130.137]
5 13 ms 16 ms 247 ms ge1-0.core002.cwt.esat.net [193.95.129.2]
6 82 ms 14 ms 16 ms pos2-0.br001.inex.esat.net [193.95.131.6]
7 26 ms 26 ms 23 ms suez-inex.hosting365.ie [193.242.111.23]
8 22 ms 17 ms 17 ms 82.195.143.131
9 34 ms 17 ms 19 ms web7.hosting365.ie [82.195.146.8]

Trace complete.

anyone else having this problem?

same happens for Boards.ie except worse.

Traceroute wrote:

Tracing route to boards.ie [82.195.136.250]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms voyager.home [192.168.1.1]
2 15 ms 13 ms 14 ms bas502.cwt.esat.net [193.95.136.238]
3 14 ms 13 ms 14 ms vlan501.rt501.cwt.esat.net [193.95.137.124]
4 1492 ms 643 ms 427 ms vlan51.rt001.cwt.esat.net [193.95.130.137]
5 326 ms 154 ms 155 ms ge1-0.core002.cwt.esat.net [193.95.129.2]
6 137 ms 49 ms 17 ms pos2-0.br001.inex.esat.net [193.95.131.6]
7 176 ms 16 ms 92 ms suez-inex.hosting365.ie [193.242.111.23]
8 16 ms 161 ms 18 ms 82.195.143.4
9 126 ms 17 ms 17 ms boards.ie [82.195.136.250]

Trace complete.

kaizersoze

Your site is fine here on BT.

Tracing route to www.uberboards.net [82.195.146.246]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 3 ms 2 ms 2 ms 192.168.1.254
2 21 ms 20 ms 20 ms bas001.bmt.esat.net [193.95.142.242]
3 20 ms 22 ms 21 ms vlan103.rt002.bmt.esat.net [193.95.142.1]
4 20 ms 20 ms 21 ms ge1-0.core001.bmt.esat.net [193.95.140.17]
5 20 ms 20 ms 20 ms pos3-0.core001.cwt.esat.net [193.95.131.41]
6 21 ms 20 ms 20 ms ge0-0.core002.cwt.esat.net [193.95.129.18]
7 21 ms 21 ms 21 ms pos2-0.br001.inex.esat.net [193.95.131.6]
8 24 ms 24 ms 23 ms suez-inex.hosting365.ie [193.242.111.23]
9 24 ms 24 ms 26 ms 82.195.143.132
10 26 ms 25 ms 30 ms 82.195.146.246

Trace complete.

But Boards is worse.

Tracing route to www.boards.ie [82.195.136.250]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 2 ms 5 ms 4 ms 192.168.1.254
2 20 ms 20 ms 22 ms bas001.bmt.esat.net [193.95.142.242]
3 19 ms 21 ms 20 ms vlan101.rt001.bmt.esat.net [193.95.141.1]
4 19 ms 20 ms 18 ms ge0-0.core001.bmt.esat.net [193.95.140.1]
5 22 ms 20 ms 19 ms pos3-0.core001.cwt.esat.net [193.95.131.41]
6 19 ms 18 ms 19 ms ge1-0.core002.cwt.esat.net [193.95.129.2]
7 215 ms 330 ms 292 ms pos2-0.br001.inex.esat.net [193.95.131.6]
8 133 ms 27 ms 27 ms suez-inex.hosting365.ie [193.242.111.23]
9 25 ms 24 ms 26 ms 82.195.143.4
10 23 ms 23 ms 24 ms boards.ie [82.195.136.250]

Trace complete.

ro2

I'm getting a constant ping of 1.7ms as far as 193.95.136.238 in the opposite direction, so I'd say it's your connection.

philologos

fine today was just acting up I suppose