My transfer rates are absolutely shocking, has been getting more and more so over the last week or two.
latest speedtest gives (for my 10Mb service):
Am not really too fussed about an upgrade to 20Mb, I just want something that resembles my original 10.
Curiously though, I have something in a trace route I have conducted which baffles me a bit; hopefully someone here a bit more knowledgable here can shed some light on it. The following trace is to a game/voice server based in Redbus data centre, London docklands.
Code:
Tracing route to kurak.pulsegaming.com [217.64.127.41]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms <1 ms 192.168.2.1
2 10 ms 8 ms 7 ms 10.251.80.1
3 30 ms 29 ms 17 ms leic-t2cam1-a-v105.inet.ntl.com [82.3.35.161]
4 10 ms 12 ms 8 ms cpc3-ches1-3-1-cust237.lutn.cable.ntl.com [82.3.32.237]
5 11 ms 12 ms 11 ms lee-bb-a-so-120-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.172.17]
6 24 ms 23 ms 23 ms nth-bb-b-so-100-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.101]
7 28 ms 25 ms 26 ms tele-ic-1-as0-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.184.2]
8 41 ms 31 ms 32 ms 212.250.14.110
9 33 ms 33 ms 31 ms te4-4.telehouse-east.core.enta.net [87.127.236.97]
10 31 ms 31 ms 32 ms te2-3.redbus-sov3.core.enta.net [87.127.236.29]
11 31 ms 37 ms 32 ms te2-1.redbus-mer3.core.enta.net [87.127.236.25]
12 18 ms 17 ms 19 ms enta.mer.as35751.net [84.45.244.22]
13 20 ms 18 ms 17 ms kurak.pulsegaming.com [217.64.127.41]
Trace complete.
What jumps out at me is hop number 4. That to me looks like the hostname of a broadband customer? Am I being routed through someone elses home connection, or am I just misinterpratating the trace?