Can any Cape Town Octotel users help me out quick

DrJohnZoidberg

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Trying to determine what fooked up my and other user's latency to Europe since August.

For instance EA servers in Germany used to have 155ms ping but now they're at ~170ms.

Could you help me out by just posting a traceroute to speed.23media.de.prod.hosts.ooklaserver.net (this is a Speedtest server located in Frankfurt) and say which ISP you're using.

ISP: Rocketnet

Code:
Tracing route to speed.23media.de [212.83.45.95]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  Internet [192.168.1.1]
  2     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  cpt-rh-ter-ibr-1.rocketnet.co.za [45.222.25.1]
  3     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  172.31.0.204
  4     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  105.22.73.81
  5   147 ms   143 ms   143 ms  ce-0-2-0-0.cr-02-cpt.za.seacomnet.com [105.16.30.2]
  6   142 ms   143 ms   143 ms  xe-0-1-0-8.cr-01-lhr.uk.seacomnet.com [105.16.13.30]
  7   141 ms   143 ms   142 ms  ae-4-0.pp-01-lhr.uk.seacomnet.com [105.16.35.8]
  8   170 ms   171 ms   171 ms  linx.23media.de [195.66.227.70]
  9   171 ms   190 ms   171 ms  ae0.cr01.fra1.23media.de [62.113.192.70]
10   171 ms   171 ms   171 ms  62.113.192.113
11   171 ms   171 ms   171 ms  212.83.45.95

Trace complete.

Thanks!
 
ISP: Cool Ideas on Octotel from Kenilworth

Code:
traceroute to speed.23media.de (212.83.45.95), 64 hops max
  1   192.168.10.200  0.334ms  0.288ms  0.218ms
  2   154.0.0.246  1.864ms  1.485ms  1.474ms
  3   154.0.4.161  1.735ms  1.486ms  0.797ms
  4   154.0.4.158  150.388ms  149.333ms  *
  5   154.0.5.18  149.735ms  149.600ms  149.853ms
  6   195.66.227.70  158.541ms  157.202ms  157.624ms
  7   62.113.192.70  161.056ms  161.351ms  166.170ms
  8   62.113.192.109  164.783ms  161.112ms  162.692ms
  9   212.83.45.95  161.179ms  161.352ms  161.487ms
 
ISP : CI Octotel Westbeach
Code:
# traceroute speed.23media.de.prod.hosts.ooklaserver.net
traceroute to speed.23media.de.prod.hosts.ooklaserver.net (212.83.45.95), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  u6u-cust.coolideas.co.za (154.0.0.246)  2.740 ms  2.735 ms  2.709 ms
 2  uwx-cust.coolideas.co.za (154.0.4.161)  2.747 ms  2.696 ms  2.679 ms
 3  uvu-cust.coolideas.co.za (154.0.4.122)  149.113 ms uoi-cust.coolideas.co.za (154.0.3.114)  149.094 ms uvu-cust.coolideas.co.za (154.0.4.122)  149.064 ms
 4  u102-cust.coolideas.co.za (154.0.5.18)  149.248 ms  149.230 ms  149.211 ms
 5  linx.23media.de (195.66.227.70)  168.905 ms  168.882 ms  168.866 ms
 6  ae0.cr01.fra1.23media.de (62.113.192.70)  159.951 ms  167.555 ms  167.712 ms
 7  62.113.192.113 (62.113.192.113)  161.537 ms  156.852 ms 62.113.192.109 (62.113.192.109)  158.061 ms
 8  212.83.45.95 (212.83.45.95)  162.955 ms  158.004 ms  162.902 ms
 
Latency is always ISP based. FNO is usually just responsible for the first (or first few in the case of Vuma trenched and openserve) hops.

Always check if an ISP has a looking glass to test latency from their core to the servers you want to use. You can check different ISPs networks from their looking glasses.
 
ISP : CI Octotel Westbeach
Code:
# traceroute speed.23media.de.prod.hosts.ooklaserver.net
traceroute to speed.23media.de.prod.hosts.ooklaserver.net (212.83.45.95), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 u6u-cust.coolideas.co.za (154.0.0.246) 2.740 ms 2.735 ms 2.709 ms
2 uwx-cust.coolideas.co.za (154.0.4.161) 2.747 ms 2.696 ms 2.679 ms
3 uvu-cust.coolideas.co.za (154.0.4.122) 149.113 ms uoi-cust.coolideas.co.za (154.0.3.114) 149.094 ms uvu-cust.coolideas.co.za (154.0.4.122) 149.064 ms
4 u102-cust.coolideas.co.za (154.0.5.18) 149.248 ms 149.230 ms 149.211 ms
5 linx.23media.de (195.66.227.70) 168.905 ms 168.882 ms 168.866 ms
6 ae0.cr01.fra1.23media.de (62.113.192.70) 159.951 ms 167.555 ms 167.712 ms
7 62.113.192.113 (62.113.192.113) 161.537 ms 156.852 ms 62.113.192.109 (62.113.192.109) 158.061 ms
8 212.83.45.95 (212.83.45.95) 162.955 ms 158.004 ms 162.902 ms
Thread hijack.

Also in West Beach. With Octotel. Line has been down for most of the day. Yours working?
 
ISP : CI Octotel Westbeach
Code:
# traceroute speed.23media.de.prod.hosts.ooklaserver.net
traceroute to speed.23media.de.prod.hosts.ooklaserver.net (212.83.45.95), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 u6u-cust.coolideas.co.za (154.0.0.246) 2.740 ms 2.735 ms 2.709 ms
2 uwx-cust.coolideas.co.za (154.0.4.161) 2.747 ms 2.696 ms 2.679 ms
3 uvu-cust.coolideas.co.za (154.0.4.122) 149.113 ms uoi-cust.coolideas.co.za (154.0.3.114) 149.094 ms uvu-cust.coolideas.co.za (154.0.4.122) 149.064 ms
4 u102-cust.coolideas.co.za (154.0.5.18) 149.248 ms 149.230 ms 149.211 ms
5 linx.23media.de (195.66.227.70) 168.905 ms 168.882 ms 168.866 ms
6 ae0.cr01.fra1.23media.de (62.113.192.70) 159.951 ms 167.555 ms 167.712 ms
7 62.113.192.113 (62.113.192.113) 161.537 ms 156.852 ms 62.113.192.109 (62.113.192.109) 158.061 ms
8 212.83.45.95 (212.83.45.95) 162.955 ms 158.004 ms 162.902 ms
Thread hijack.

Also in West Beach. With Octotel. Line has been down for most of the day. Yours working?
 
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