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rikur · 20-02-2007, 17:33

Hi

not quite sure on this one - but I think you will be getting allocated a different IP address depending on whether you connect your PC directly to the modem, or whether you connect the router.

It is therefore conceivable that the route back to your PC from the other end is different depending on which device you connect. To the best of my knowledge routing on ntl:tw's core is only based on destination address and not the source address - hence I couldn't see how you could get different outbound routes.

Is your router also acting as a firewall?
It is possible that your router is adding the latency - I don't know about your particular model, but cheap and/or early models were designed for 512kbps style connections, and don't necessarily have the processing power to transparently handle 10mbps

Given you have access to the host server, it would be interesting to compare tracert's from that end back to your home connection to see if they go completely different routes.

20-02-2007, 17:33	#2
rikur Inactive Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 61	Re: Bizarre tracert for router vs modem Hi not quite sure on this one - but I think you will be getting allocated a different IP address depending on whether you connect your PC directly to the modem, or whether you connect the router. It is therefore conceivable that the route back to your PC from the other end is different depending on which device you connect. To the best of my knowledge routing on ntl:tw's core is only based on destination address and not the source address - hence I couldn't see how you could get different outbound routes. Is your router also acting as a firewall? It is possible that your router is adding the latency - I don't know about your particular model, but cheap and/or early models were designed for 512kbps style connections, and don't necessarily have the processing power to transparently handle 10mbps Given you have access to the host server, it would be interesting to compare tracert's from that end back to your home connection to see if they go completely different routes.