Bad connection Nottingham - Page 4

Mr.Moony · 19-12-2003, 01:52

DrAwesome transparent cache will do nothing to the ping times. Pings/trace's are ICMP requests and not get effected by cache servers

DrAwesome · 19-12-2003, 14:44

A quick check without typing tracert (what ever) in a dos prompt here 2 sample Unix traceroutes between the Giganews servers and your current location if it helps those that are lazy.

my connection during the day

news-40.giganews.com
1 330.ge-4-2-0.mpr2.iah1.us.above.net (64.125.104.19) 0.857 ms 0.676 ms 0.594 ms
2 pos-0-0.er1.atl4.us.above.net (64.125.29.69) 13.480 ms 13.379 ms 13.409 ms
3 pos12-0.pr1.atl4.us.above.net (64.125.30.234) 13.408 ms 13.243 ms 13.263 ms
4 so-5-3-0.cr1.dca2.us.mfnx.net (208.184.232.49) 24.601 ms 24.587 ms 24.565 ms
5 so-6-0-0.cr1.lhr3.uk.above.net (64.125.31.185) 96.626 ms 96.438 ms 96.424 ms
6 pop-bb-b-so-330-0.inet.ntl.com (208.185.188.42) 96.496 ms 96.378 ms 96.372 ms
7 lee-bb-a-so-700-0.inet.ntl.com (62.253.185.237) 101.947 ms 101.843 ms 101.903 ms
8 midd-t2core-a-pos31.inet.ntl.com (62.253.187.90) 103.400 ms 103.247 ms 103.329 ms
9 cache8-midd.server.ntli.net () 109.268 ms 109.136 ms 109.124 ms

news-60.giganews.com
1 gw1-vlan201.ash.giganews.com (216.196.98.2) 26 ms 38 ms 2 ms
2 g3-2.gw1.ash.giganews.com (64.200.88.101) 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms
3 hrndva1wcx2-pos0-0.wcg.net (64.200.89.49) 79 ms 79 ms 79 ms
4 nycmny2wcx2-oc48.wcg.net (64.200.240.45) 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms
5 lndnuk1lcx1-oc12.wcg.net (64.200.87.150) 78 ms 78 ms 78 ms
6 linx-gw2.router.ntli.net (195.66.226.22) 78 ms 79 ms 79 ms
7 pop-bb-b-so-430-0.inet.ntl.com (62.253.185.81) 78 ms 78 ms 78 ms
8 lee-bb-a-so-700-0.inet.ntl.com (62.253.185.237) 84 ms 83 ms 83 ms
9 midd-t2core-a-pos31.inet.ntl.com (62.253.187.90) 85 ms 85 ms 85 ms
10 cache8-midd.server.ntli.net () 91 ms 91 ms 91 ms

Schwong · 19-12-2003, 21:26

Does anybody know if this problem is resolved yet? I am actually getting fine pings ingame BUT it is rather shaky, with high pings sometimes, quite unstable.
As with tracerts, 1 second the ping to the t2core thing is like 600 and the next its sub 100.

Was wondering if it was resolved yet as i dunno what to make of it, and i wouldnt want to assume because i know ntl are rather random with their problems =/

20-12-2003, 07:26

DrAwesome, return path trace routes, ie from someone else to you do not take the same path as ones from you. As you will notice there are only 4 ntl servers there and one of them is the cache server. It wont give a reliable representation of what is happening.

If you wan to use a web based package to test server responce times use Visual Route (http://visualroute.visualware.co.uk/)