Consistant High Latency

dylanpp

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
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C:\Documents and Settings\user>tracert www.iol.ie

Tracing route to kidney.esatclear.ie [194.145.128.60]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 170 ms 139 ms 130 ms bas001.bmt.esat.net [193.95.142.242]
3 138 ms 127 ms 130 ms vlan103.rt002.bmt.esat.net [193.95.142.1]
4 140 ms 139 ms 135 ms ge1-0.core001.bmt.esat.net [193.95.140.17]
5 153 ms 148 ms 151 ms pos3-0.core001.cwt.esat.net [193.95.131.41]
6 129 ms 123 ms 120 ms vlan3.rt002.cwt.esat-x.com [193.95.129.19]
7 143 ms 149 ms 152 ms vlan58.rt507.cwt.esat.net [193.95.132.34]
8 * vlan58.rt507.cwt.esat.net [193.95.132.34] reports: Destination ne
t unreachable.

Trace complete.


Sometimes the problem goes away for a few nights, but by God its there 75% of the time. It poses quite a problem when i need 20-30ms to UK CS1.6 servers. Thats a "game" for anyone that doesnt know.

And yes, I can and do get 20-30ms to these servers on a regular basis - just not when I need it most.

The problem must be at the exchange. What can be done to rectify this?

(I am on BT 3mb and my upload is 378k)

OfflerCrocGod

dylanpp wrote:

Thats a "game" for anyone that doesnt know.

Thanks for explaining that to us on the Broadband forum As for your latency I guess you don't have any other computers downloading on the same network and there are no programs in the background on your PC - even hidden ones like trojans or spyware etc? If that's not the cause I wonder if this happens as soon as you start playing or only at certain times during the day?

dylanpp

It has nothing to do with any program on my computer. virus or other. It happens at "peak times". but it happens incredibly suddenly which could imply something instant is going on if you know what im talking about.

smellslikeshoes

Just sounds like contention to me. You don't have much recourse unless you can prove that its seriously effecting everyone on your exchange, then Eircom might admit theres a problem or the exchange needs to be upgraded. But it won't be an easy task see Here.

OfflerCrocGod

Btw dylanpp as for your internet exploder issues I suggest you grab Firefox and use that instead I have no problems with it on Boards. Since your IE is so messed up I wouldn't be so sure that there are no malware programs on your PC.

zilog_jones

What time of day did you do that traceroute?

dylanpp

I did it around 10pm

zilog_jones

Here's mine from just now:

C:\Documents and Settings\aaron>tracert www.iol.ie

Tracing route to kidney.esatclear.ie [194.145.128.60]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 10.0.0.1
2 69 ms 65 ms 72 ms bas001.bmt.esat.net [193.95.142.242]
3 123 ms 77 ms 69 ms vlan101.rt001.bmt.esat.net [193.95.141.1]
4 103 ms 98 ms 101 ms ge0-0.core001.bmt.esat.net [193.95.140.1]
5 87 ms 87 ms 88 ms pos3-0.core001.cwt.esat.net [193.95.131.41]
6 95 ms 87 ms 87 ms vlan3.rt002.cwt.esat-x.com [193.95.129.19]
7 112 ms 75 ms 76 ms vlan58.rt507.cwt.esat.net [193.95.132.34]
8 vlan58.rt507.cwt.esat.net [193.95.132.34] reports: Destination net unreach
able.

I tried it a few times and each hop can vary from about 60 to 180ms.

I don't think I've ever got 20-30ms while playing games - maybe 40 if I'm lucky. However I've never got any particularly bad pings either, unless I'm playing some gammy US server

dylanpp

ur pings are terrible too!!!!

OfflerCrocGod

Use jolt.co.uk please that's the more common gamer ping server and it's in the UK too



Tracing route to jolt.co.uk [82.133.85.65]

over a maximum of 30 hops:



1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1

2 12 ms 11 ms 11 ms bas505.cwt.esat.net [193.95.136.241]

3 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms vlan500.rt502.cwt.esat.net [193.95.136.125]

4 11 ms 11 ms 10 ms vlan54.rt002.cwt.esat-x.com [193.95.130.161]

5 11 ms 10 ms 11 ms ge1-0.core001.cwt.esat.net [193.95.129.17]

6 22 ms 22 ms 23 ms pos2-0.br001.ldn.esat.net [193.95.131.14]

7 30 ms 24 ms 23 ms te1-3.cr05.tn5.bb.pipex.net [195.66.224.29]

8 23 ms 23 ms 22 ms g1-1-6.ar01.tn5.bb.pipex.net [62.72.140.142]

9 22 ms 23 ms 23 ms ge-0-0-0-3801.jolt-gw.cust.pipex.net [212.241.241.14]

10 24 ms 23 ms 23 ms secure.jolt.co.uk [82.133.85.65]



Trace complete.

At 11:30 or so on BT try it yourself.

dylanpp

12ms to ur exchange, very nice! jolt... oh dear

zilog_jones

OfflerCrocGod, where are you located?

Is the first hop really the exchange? That would have to mean dylanpp is in Limerick (Roches St. exchange) too if it is.