High packet losses to London

Hi,

One of the things making the net slow is packet losses.

Substantial packet losses is an indication of network congestion - or alternatively amateurish network operation.

Below some data I gathered with Pingplotter (www.pingplotter.com)

Please note the PacketLoss % to London.

Target Name: www.google.com
IP: 216.239.53.99
Date/Time: 2/6/2004 2:46:55 PM to 2/6/2004 2:55:55 PM

Hop Sent Err PL% Min Max Avg Host Name / [IP]
1 37 0 0.0 1 10 5 [192.168.0.201]
2 37 0 0.0 11 47 16 tbnb-96-01.telkomadsl.co.za [165.165.96.1]
3 37 0 0.0 11 366 64 tbnb-ip-er-1-fe-9-0-0-1.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.10.121]
4 36 13 <b>36.1</b> 450 1053 714 london-dir-telecity-pos-8-0-0.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.9.50]
5 36 0 0.0 326 460 401 pos2-1.cr02.ldn01.pccwbtn.net [63.218.52.17]
6 36 1 2.8 491 638 568 pos3-0.cr02.sjo01.pccwbtn.net [63.218.6.66]
7 36 2 5.6 492 624 546 eqixsj-google-gige.google.com [206.223.116.21]
8 36 2 5.6 490 628 552 [216.239.48.210]
9 36 1 2.8 507 653 568 [216.239.48.74]
10 36 2 5.6 513 646 587 www.google.akadns.net [216.239.53.99]




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Yeah I've noticed this too, particularly over the last 2 weeks or so. I've reverted to ISDN for international gaming... our international latency over ADSL was a dream over Dec/Jan - but went pear shaped at about the time the Mydoom worm/virus was discovered. It may be purely co-incidental, though, and part of the port shaping.

Telkom have announced that they will be releasing an "optimised" package especially for gamers (no time-frame given) - hopefully this will provide us with more consistent international ADSL latency.

try using the [code ] [/code] tags next time

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