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Old 27-04-2007, 18:23   #1
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Slow speed & curious routing

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.

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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?
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Old 27-04-2007, 18:37   #2
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Re: Slow speed & curious routing

i'd say no, otherwise you'd see a ubr host before hop 4. it's more likely work has been done and they've changed IP allocations and are using an old customer range for routers etc and just not updated the DNS to reflect the changes
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Old 27-04-2007, 18:47   #3
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Re: Slow speed & curious routing

Tracing route to kurak.pulsegaming.com [217.64.127.41]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms cpc2-brmb1-0-0-cust635.bagu.cable.ntl.com [82.27
.106.124]
2 7 ms 8 ms 8 ms 10.137.116.1
3 10 ms 11 ms 12 ms bagu-t2cam1-b-v108.inet.ntl.com [80.5.162.161]
4 8 ms 35 ms 11 ms bagu-t2core-b-ge-wan63.inet.ntl.com [195.182.175
.33]
5 9 ms 12 ms 10 ms lee-bb-b-so-700-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.188.29]
6 46 ms 12 ms 32 ms lee-bb-a-ge-000-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.187.185]

7 13 ms 14 ms 14 ms nth-bb-b-so-100-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.101]

8 34 ms 24 ms 29 ms tele-ic-1-as0-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.184.2]
9 34 ms 40 ms 41 ms 212.250.14.110
10 76 ms 206 ms 211 ms te4-4.telehouse-east.core.enta.net [87.127.236.9
7]
11 50 ms 30 ms 32 ms te2-3.redbus-sov3.core.enta.net [87.127.236.29]

12 32 ms 42 ms 33 ms te2-1.redbus-mer3.core.enta.net [87.127.236.25]

13 19 ms 20 ms 35 ms enta.mer.as35751.net [84.45.244.22]
14 31 ms 16 ms 18 ms kurak.pulsegaming.com [217.64.127.41]

Trace complete.

Mine's very similar...

---------- Post added at 19:47 ---------- Previous post was at 19:46 ----------

Oh, bugger. What a pile of mess.
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Old 27-04-2007, 18:50   #4
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Re: Slow speed & curious routing

That seems a very reasonable explanation, thanks

Hope the mess clears up soon though.
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Old 27-04-2007, 19:10   #5
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xD
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Old 27-04-2007, 20:24   #6
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Re: Slow speed & curious routing

If you telnet to the strange IP you can see that it is a core device in Leciester (and that they havn't applied a correct port 23 access control list!!) :


C:\>telnet 82.3.32.237
Trying 82.3.32.237... open


+---------------------------------------------------------------+
|Warning; unauthorised use of this system may lead |
|to criminal prosecution. |
|If you are not an authorised user, disconnect immediately. |
|By accessing and using this system you consent to such |
|monitoring for law enforcement and other purposes. |
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
leic-t3core-1a (ttyp0)

login: ^CClient aborted login



Connection to host lost.

C:\>
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Re: Slow speed & curious routing

Good work, am happily convinced now. Was fearing I was making someones already crippled internet in Luton act even slower
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