High pings to London server. - Page 4

Florence · 23-04-2006, 11:18

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.

Chrysalis · 23-04-2006, 23:45

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.

Florence · 24-04-2006, 00:15

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

Florence · 24-04-2006, 09:11

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

Florence · 25-04-2006, 23:13

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.