Eircom pings get even worse..

melachi · 30-01-2003 8:45pm #1

Before new year I used to ping around 65-75 to uk servers, but ever since new year i've been pinging another 10 ms. This such bollox, now it's even less playable. When I asked them about interleaving they didn't want to change it at all. Saying "it has come to our conclusion that most of our customers prefer it turned on". Yea cause most of your customers don't even know wtf it is.

Mr. Fancypants · 30-01-2003 8:59pm

Will other operators be able to turn off interleaving if they wish when March rolls around?
Latency is certainly high on my list of reasons to go broadband.

spongebob · 30-01-2003 9:11pm

ask Via , ESAT have it turned off anyway.

longword · 30-01-2003 10:01pm

Originally posted by Muck
ask Via , ESAT have it turned off anyway.

VIA can only request that Eircom do it. And their answer from Eircom is almost certainly going to be the same as Eircom give to their own customers.

BTW, I can't say that I've noticed any change in my latency since it was installed in September. Can you pinpoint the additional latency with traceroute?

BKtje · 31-01-2003 12:05am

Right i dont know if this has nething to do with higher dsl pings, but ive noticed that the 4th hop within the Eircom network tends to spike (up to 270). Also the pings on isdn have risen 5-10ms.

I know its different technology but woiuldnt they use the same routing once they hit the ISP? It might just be the routing has gotten worse or is handling more load?

Then again i could be talking ****

melachi · 31-01-2003 12:40pm

1 57 ms 49 ms 49 ms c104-1.bas1.prp.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.104.1]
2 59 ms 59 ms 49 ms fe0-1.edge1.prp.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.155.105]
3 59 ms 59 ms 49 ms pos1-0.btr1.cra.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.155.145]

4 79 ms 75 ms 79 ms pos0
00.core1.thn.london.eircom.net [159.134.191.98]
5 79 ms 79 ms 79 ms lon1-9.nildram.net [195.66.224.59]
6 79 ms 79 ms 77 ms jolt-gw.nildram.net [195.149.20.126]
7 79 ms 79 ms 79 ms clarity.jolt.co.uk [195.149.21.11]

The one to london eircom used to be 67-70

spongebob · 31-01-2003 12:54pm

could be

1. Link from Dublin to Telehouse North is busy...need more bandwidth pronto.

and/or

2. Router in Dublin (and/or) London needs a reboot late at night when all is quiet.

M

OHP · 31-01-2003 11:33pm

Originally posted by melachi
Before new year I used to ping around 65-75 to uk servers, but ever since new year i've been pinging another 10 ms. This such bollox, now it's even less playable. When I asked them about interleaving they didn't want to change it at all. Saying "it has come to our conclusion that most of our customers prefer it turned on". Yea cause most of your customers don't even know wtf it is.

Explaine what it is please? I never heard of it before.

OHP

dahamsta · 31-01-2003 11:51pm

This belongs in Nets/Comms.

adam

Dustaz · 01-02-2003 1:57am

well, i was waiting to see if anything interesting regarding interleaving came up. Most of my questions have been answered at this stage tho.

Leaving it here for one more day, so unless Muck wades in with some light reading, ill move it to nets/comms tommorow.

longword · 01-02-2003 2:04am

More one for Broadband I would have thought, but what do I know...

Interleave and a number of other issues are decently covered at this page by Karl Jeacle, as pointed out by dahamsta a few days ago.

Eircom pings get even worse..

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