Re: High pings to London server.
 

I am on 2mb supposedly but its getting worse will give BT a call t see what deal I can get to move phone away to amke changing Internet from NTL easier and quicker this trend continues this is the worst connection I have had in 6 yrs.

Re: High pings to London server.
 

Looks like I got congestion again, very annoying I had somewhat good performance for 2 days then slowness and lag again.

Tracing route to 212.187.246.186 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 27 ms 53 ms 18 ms 10.227.112.1
2 17 ms 16 ms 12 ms leic-t2cam1-b-ge914.inet.ntl.com [82.3.35.213]
3 48 ms 53 ms 49 ms leic-t2core-b-ge-210-0.inet.ntl.com [82.3.33.134]
4 * 26 ms 30 ms nth-bb-b-so-230-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.188.114]
5 29 ms 32 ms 31 ms pop-bb-a-so-100-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.172.14]
6 29 ms 37 ms 19 ms 195.50.91.69
7 48 ms 35 ms 41 ms ge-11-0.ipcolo2.london1.level3.net [4.68.116.42]
8 21 ms 18 ms 17 ms 212.187.246.186

Reply from 212.187.246.186: bytes=32 time=26ms TTL=57
Request timed out.
Reply from 212.187.246.186: bytes=32 time=57ms TTL=57
Reply from 212.187.246.186: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=57

not as bad as yours was tho.

Re: High pings to London server.
 

yes its teh same every evening for me gets to 7pm and you can kiss decent speed and low pings bye.

Pinging 212.187.246.186 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 212.187.246.186: bytes=32 time=371ms TTL=53
Reply from 212.187.246.186: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=53
Reply from 212.187.246.186: bytes=32 time=57ms TTL=53
Reply from 212.187.246.186: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=53

Ping statistics for 212.187.246.186:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 16ms, Maximum = 371ms, Average = 116ms


edited to add my speed test
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:53:27 GMT

1st 512K took 3781 ms = 135.4 KB/sec, approx 1116 Kbps, 1.09 Mbps
2nd 512K took 10954 ms = 46.7 KB/sec, approx 385 Kbps, 0.38 Mbps
3rd 512K took 7421 ms = 69 KB/sec, approx 569 Kbps, 0.56 Mbps
4th 512K took 8750 ms = 58.5 KB/sec, approx 482 Kbps, 0.47 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 638 Kbps, 0.63 Mbps

There is nothing wrong with my setup its fine by day and useless in the evening

---------- Post added at 00:15 ---------- Previous post was yesterday at 23:51 ----------

information from the modem

Downstream Lock : Locked
Downstream Channel Id : 1
Downstream Frequency : 586750000 Hz
Downstream Modulation : QAM64
Downstream Symbol Rate : 6952 Ksym/sec
Downstream Interleave Depth : taps12Increment17
Downstream Receive Power Level : 0.3 dBmV
Downstream SNR : 30.6 dB

Upstream Lock : Locked
Upstream Channel ID : 2
Upstream Frequency : 41600000 Hz
Upstream Modulation : QPSK
Upstream Symbol Rate : 2560 Ksym/sec
Upstream transmit Power Level : 44.0 dBmV
Upstream Mini-Slot Size : 2

I have tried reseting the modem to defaults

Re: High pings to London server.
 

a speed test in the morning when most are in work.

Mon, 24 Apr 2006 08:08:24 GMT

1st 512K took 2188 ms = 234 KB/sec, approx 1928 Kbps, 1.88 Mbps
2nd 512K took 2140 ms = 239.3 KB/sec, approx 1972 Kbps, 1.93 Mbps
3rd 512K took 2172 ms = 235.7 KB/sec, approx 1942 Kbps, 1.9 Mbps
4th 512K took 2172 ms = 235.7 KB/sec, approx 1942 Kbps, 1.9 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 1946 Kbps, 1.9 Mbps

Well contacted BT today they have a special offer on 6 months half rental really considering moving back so I can move to ADSL

Re: High pings to London server.
 

Well this will show the problems are mainly NTL's

I was kicked by this server after around an hour of acceptable pings to 790ms.

Tracing route to 87.117.208.193 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms WRT54GS [192.168.1.1]
2 9 ms 7 ms 16 ms 10.9.0.1
3 281 ms 636 ms 652 ms oldh-t2cam1-a-ge-wan51-129.inet.ntl.com [80.5.16
5.69]
4 370 ms 352 ms 332 ms manc-t3core-1a-ge-011-0.inet.ntl.com [213.104.24
2.41]
5 9 ms 9 ms 8 ms man-bb-a-so-400-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.175.1]
6 159 ms 33 ms 9 ms lee-bb-b-so-700-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.194]

7 213 ms 320 ms 290 ms lee-bb-a-ae0-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.187.185]
8 94 ms 22 ms 12 ms nth-bb-b-so-000-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.101]

9 18 ms 185 ms 253 ms tele-ic-1-so-700-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.184.2]
10 164 ms 27 ms 31 ms 212.250.14.86
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 81 ms 32 ms 96 ms 87.117.208.193

Trace complete.