Pings and Traces and Ips and All That.

Buceph

I've seen people here talking about pings and traceroutes and speed tests. How do you go about doing all of that? I'm having some problems at the moment and I'd like to be able to figure out where the problem is.

fatherdougalmag

ping
traceroute/tracert
Speedtest

Buceph

I've just done a tracert for a couple of gaming servers, and it seems to be routing it through America and New York. Why would this happen? And what can I do about it?

Snaga

It depends on where the game server is (It may well be in the states) - post the ip addresses here (and your traceroute) and people here can give you proper advice without having to resort to guessing.

Buceph

C:\Documents and Settings\Dell>tracert 87.237.38.200

Tracing route to 87.237.38.200 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 87.237.38.200
2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.100.1
3 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms ne-access.cgl.cork.novanetworks.ie [84.203.145.65]
4 10 ms 13 ms 16 ms cgl-link.fcr-core.cork.novanetworks.ie [84.203.161.161]
5 17 ms 16 ms 26 ms 84.203.219.54
6 85 ms 65 ms 65 ms fe0-0-0-8.edge1.nsc.crk.stisp.net [84.203.152.25]
7 76 ms 88 ms 79 ms ge1-3-0-104.core1.hba.dub.stisp.net [84.203.130.85]
8 143 ms 104 ms 126 ms fe7-5.cr01.nyc02.pccwbtn.net [63.216.4.141]
9 102 ms 107 ms 108 ms pos5-0.cr02.nyc01.pccwbtn.net [63.218.8.70]
10 119 ms 102 ms 105 ms kar2-so-6-1-0.newyork.savvis.net [204.70.150.249]
11 125 ms 105 ms * dcr4-ge-0-2-1.newyork.savvis.net [204.70.193.110]
12 113 ms 107 ms 109 ms bcs2-so-1-1-0.NewYork.savvis.net [204.70.192.210]
13 107 ms 104 ms 107 ms so-1-2-0.gar3.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.68.127.205]

14 111 ms 106 ms 108 ms ae-1-51.bbr1.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.68.97.1]
15 112 ms 102 ms 108 ms ae-1-0.bbr1.London1.Level3.net [212.187.128.58]

16 115 ms 104 ms 105 ms ae-0-55.gar1.London1.Level3.net [4.68.116.139]
17 103 ms 100 ms 105 ms 195.50.91.22
18 120 ms 104 ms 107 ms 87.237.38.199
19 105 ms 105 ms 104 ms 87.237.38.200

Trace complete.

Sponge Bob

Nova have some strange routing, it end in London via the States but is sent there by SMART (stisp.net on the Irish hops to Dublin) SO its all Smarts fault really .

Give out to them and paste in the traces on their support forum on smart telecom here

Tell them sponge bob sent you on behalf of Nova.

Buceph

Are you being serious? :?

Why would Smart send it to America? And how can I complain? I'm a Nova Networks customer. Is it that Nova Networks have a contract with Smart to provide them with bandwidth?

I don't get this at all. What you're saying would mean that the pings are as bad for Smart customers?

TimTim

Looking at other providers tracert's it looks like its the only way they can get to it. Or one of the routers is blocking ICMP from certain places...

EsatBT wrote:

1 int.ddmfw01.esat.net (193.120.10.61) 0.279 ms 0.295 ms 0.279 ms
2 193.95.133.82 (193.95.133.82) 0.423 ms 0.414 ms 0.429 ms
3 ge0-1.core001.ddm.esat.net (193.95.139.1) 0.282 ms 0.266 ms 0.282 ms
4 pos2-2.core001.cwt.esat.net (193.95.131.25) 0.573 ms 0.559 ms 0.576 ms
5 ge3-0.br003.cwt.esat.net (193.95.129.6) 0.719 ms 0.560 ms 0.575 ms
6 213.242.106.133 (213.242.106.133) 0.720 ms 0.857 ms 0.719 ms
7 so-6-0.hsa1.Dublin1.Level3.net (4.68.115.25) 0.720 ms 0.705 ms 0.722 ms
8 so-4-1-0.bbr1.London1.Level3.net (4.68.128.113) 10.662 ms 10.648 ms 10.665 ms
9 ae-0-55.gar1.London1.Level3.net (4.68.116.139) 10.810 ms ae-0-53.gar1.London1.Level3.net (4.68.116.75) 10.648 ms ae-0-51.gar1.London1.Level3.net (4.68.116.11) 10.792 ms
10 195.50.91.22 (195.50.91.22) 11.230 ms 11.235 ms 11.398 ms
11 87.237.38.199 (87.237.38.199) 12.710 ms 13.282 ms 13.004 ms
12 87.237.38.200 (87.237.38.200) 12.992 ms 13.431 ms 13.591 ms

HEAnet wrote:

1 so-3-0-0.ar1.dub1.gblx.net (208.48.23.53) [AS 3549] 112 msec 4 msec 40 msec
2 ge1-1-10G.ar4.LON3.gblx.net (67.17.105.18) [AS 3549] 12 msec 12 msec 12 msec
3 Level-3public-peering.ge-5-0-0.ar2.LON3.gblx.net (208.51.239.162) [AS 3549] 8 msec 12 msec 12 msec
4 ae-0-55.gar1.London1.Level3.net (4.68.116.139) [AS 3356] 8 msec
ae-0-51.gar1.London1.Level3.net (4.68.116.11) [AS 3356] 12 msec 8 msec
5 195.50.91.22 [AS 3356] 8 msec 8 msec 8 msec
6 * * *
7 * * *

Magnet wrote:

1 ge-2-0-0-208.dub20.ip.tiscali.net (213.200.67.165) [AS 3257] 0 msec 4 msec 0 msec
2 so-3-1-0.lon22.ip.tiscali.net (213.200.80.30) [AS 3257] 8 msec
so-0-1-1.lon22.ip.tiscali.net (213.200.82.73) [AS 3257] 8 msec
so-3-1-0.lon22.ip.tiscali.net (213.200.80.30) [AS 3257] 12 msec
3 ge-7-1.core2.London1.Level3.net (213.200.77.130) [AS 3257] 8 msec 8 msec 12 msec
4 ae-0-53.gar1.London1.Level3.net (4.68.116.75) [AS 3356] 12 msec 8 msec 12 msec
5 195.50.91.22 [AS 3356] 12 msec 12 msec 12 msec
6 * * *
7 * * *

Hosting365 wrote:

[timtim@daedalus ~]$ traceroute 87.237.38.200
traceroute to 87.237.38.200 (87.237.38.200), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 82.195.149.2 (82.195.149.2) 6.882 ms 10.229 ms 12.667 ms
2 82.195.143.1 (82.195.143.1) 7.013 ms 17.942 ms 14.987 ms
3 217.163.4.33 (217.163.4.33) 21.189 ms 14.918 ms 14.921 ms
4 ae-0-51.gar1.London1.Level3.net (4.68.116.11) 14.756 ms 15.803 ms 14.892 ms
5 195.50.91.22 (195.50.91.22) 14.768 ms 16.525 ms 15.722 ms
6 * *