@AfriGuy,
I’ve done a test with Zertop’s diagnostic tool and found that the second hop on international traceroutes are much higher than local. Is it normal or is there something wrong?
It doesn't affect speed tests or normal browsing.
Code:Local Tracert Tracing route to news24.co.za [41.86.110.143] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1 2 * * * Request timed out. [B]3 46 ms 45 ms 44 ms 41.170.79.229 [/B] 4 46 ms 44 ms 45 ms 41.170.79.230 5 45 ms 45 ms 45 ms 41.170.79.236 6 46 ms 46 ms 47 ms mweb.jb1.napafrica.net [196.46.25.145] 7 62 ms 64 ms 64 ms te0-0-0-3.vic-p-2.optinet.net [197.80.7.34] 8 62 ms 63 ms 63 ms te0-0-0-0.cpt-p-1.optinet.net [197.84.4.34] 9 61 ms 61 ms 61 ms vl11.cpt-hscore-1.optinet.net [197.84.5.238] 10 60 ms 60 ms 59 ms 196.28.178.66 11 59 ms 60 ms 59 ms gig5-1-cpt-opt-65-1.optinet.net [196.41.133.234] 12 66 ms 66 ms 66 ms OPTI-CPT-N1-Hosting.optinet.net [197.84.196.6] 13 62 ms 63 ms 62 ms 197-84-208-146.cpt.mweb.co.za [197.84.208.146] 14 66 ms 65 ms 65 ms 41-86-110-143.mweb.co.za [41.86.110.143] Trace complete. International Tracert Tracing route to thinkbroadband.com [80.249.99.130] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1 2 * * * Request timed out. [B] 3 178 ms 215 ms 215 ms 169-1-1-249.realm.afrihost.co.za [169.1.1.249][/B] 4 50 ms 49 ms 51 ms 169-1-1-250.realm.afrihost.co.za [169.1.1.250] 5 50 ms 49 ms 50 ms 41.170.79.236 6 51 ms 50 ms 51 ms 41.160.2.33 7 45 ms 69 ms 46 ms ix-0-3-0-0.tcore1.JSO-Johannesburg.as6453.net [216.6.55.37] 8 223 ms 226 ms 226 ms if-4-2.tcore1.KLT-Cape-Town.as6453.net [41.206.178.2] 9 235 ms 201 ms 304 ms if-0-1-0.core2.PV9-Lisbon.as6453.net [41.206.164.58] 10 219 ms 218 ms 219 ms if-0-0-0-2000.tcore1.PV9-Lisbon.as6453.net [80.231.158.1] 11 220 ms 221 ms 222 ms if-1-3.tcore1.SV8-Highbridge.as6453.net [80.231.158.30] 12 226 ms 226 ms 226 ms if-19-2.tcore2.L78-London.as6453.net [80.231.138.22] 13 222 ms 222 ms 222 ms if-2-2.tcore1.L78-London.as6453.net [80.231.131.2] 14 218 ms 219 ms 219 ms if-15-2.mse1.LVX-London.as6453.net [80.231.130.114] 15 220 ms 218 ms 219 ms ix-11-2.mse1.LVX-London.as6453.net [195.219.92.34] 16 228 ms 229 ms 228 ms te1-1-1-31.core-rs2.thdo.ncuk.net [80.249.97.85] 17 227 ms 227 ms 228 ms www.thinkbroadband.com [80.249.99.130] Trace complete. International Speedtest Downloaded 20.0 megabytes in 21 seconds. (938.20 KB/s) Local Speedtest Downloaded 15.6 megabytes in 17 seconds. (933.43 KB/s) Test End Timestamp 2015-09-25 11:15:28.07
Not seeing any spikes up from my end, both these destinations show at around 40ms for me.
What happens if you ping these two IPs from the 3rd hop?



