Don't use polka!

[luke1250]

so I had this polka 3G account for a long time,
but as I play online game(atlantica) theres always a 1 or sometimes longer lag,
Im sure it's polka's problem since using my friend's saol works perfectly.

 

[MyWorld]

And I jump on the net and shout from my soap box that nobody should use Polka because of lag...

And I take it you discussed this with Polka, I take it they have stated that there is nothing they can do and that you should move to a new ISP?
And this is on a unshapped or shaped account?

The internet makes it too easy to slander...

 

[Tinuva]

Hmmm interesting, I thought polka is testing their own IPC accounts...

 

[RazedInBlack]

Do other people have this problem as well with Polka?

 

[Tinuva]

Give us some traceroutes to show the problem, that will also help a bit.

 

[luke1250]

traceroute?

 

[StevenC]

traceroute?

/sigh

Before you try ruin a reputation, at least do some research.

 

[Tinuva]

you know. You go

1. click the start button
2. click on the one called "run"
3. type in "cmd" and enter
4. type in the big black window "tracert www.saix.net" and "tracert www.google.com" and "tracert site.with.problem.name"

Copy/paste all of it on to the forums here so we can see if there really is a problem.

 

[HapticSimian]

...and "tracert site.with.problem.name"

Do I win something if I can predict what's going to happen here...

 

[Mars]

C:\Documents and Settings\Ihaytepolka>tracert site.with.problem.name

Tracing route to site.with.problem.name [19.8.86.172]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 * * * Request timed out.
2 * * * Request timed out.

 

[PokerKing]

Polka is fine - I used to game with a Polka account with no problems at all and now that they are part of Mweb I do not see why their quality of service would not improve?

 

[Tinuva]

Polka is fine - I used to game with a Polka account with no problems at all and now that they are part of Mweb I do not see why their quality of service would not improve?

True, but they have their own IPC using the Polka userbase for testing. So it might be a very different story now, which is why I was asking for the traceroutes in the first place.

 

[blaaislaai]

dude its not polka, its your pc causing the lag due to updates or some malware running in the background.

 

[Nortic]

That explains why my sites have been quicker lately on polka:

PING site.with.problem.name (82.98.86.172) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from www172.sedoparking.com (82.98.86.172): icmp_seq=1 ttl=50 time=203 ms
64 bytes from www172.sedoparking.com (82.98.86.172): icmp_seq=2 ttl=50 time=203 ms
64 bytes from www172.sedoparking.com (82.98.86.172): icmp_seq=3 ttl=50 time=200 ms
64 bytes from www172.sedoparking.com (82.98.86.172): icmp_seq=4 ttl=50 time=202 ms

--- site.with.problem.name ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 200.101/202.424/203.895/1.549 ms


They are probably on seacom?

 

[Tinuva]

They definitely are not on seacom.

DNS:
david@david-pc ~ $ dig -x 196.28.141.229
;; ANSWER SECTION:
229.141.28.196.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN PTR 196-28-141-229.adsl.mweb.co.za.

traceroute to 196.28.141.229 (196.28.141.229), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 75.126.138.1-static.reverse.softlayer.com (75.126.138.1) 0.413 ms 0.382 ms 0.590 ms
2 po102.dar02.dal01.dallas-datacenter.com (66.228.118.181) 0.362 ms 0.571 ms 0.568 ms
3 po2.cer02.dal01.dallas-datacenter.com (66.228.118.206) 0.550 ms 0.547 ms 0.538 ms
4 border4.t3-3.softlayer-11.ext1.dal.pnap.net (216.52.189.17) 0.757 ms 0.752 ms 0.741 ms
5 core3.tge5-2-bbnet2.ext1.dal.pnap.net (216.52.191.98) 0.966 ms 1.201 ms core3.tge5-1-bbnet1.ext1.dal.pnap.net (216.52.191.34) 0.946 ms
6 core3.ext1.dal.inappnet-xx.cr1.dal005.internap.net (66.79.145.97) 0.451 ms 0.569 ms 0.644 ms
7 cr2-cr1.dal005.internap.net (66.79.147.186) 0.612 ms 0.613 ms 0.840 ms
8 TenGE12-3.br02.dal01.pccwbtn.net (206.223.118.48) 185.978 ms 186.219 ms 186.212 ms
9 telkomsa.ge9-16.br02.ldn01.pccwbtn.net (63.218.13.14) 114.497 ms 114.491 ms 114.484 ms
10 lon-ip-dir-telecity-ge-0-3-0-100.telkom-ipnet.co.za (196.43.9.42) 114.704 ms 114.699 ms 114.690 ms
11 lon-ip-dir-telecity.telkom-ipnet.co.za (196.43.9.249) 114.416 ms 115.155 ms 115.140 ms
12 wblv-ip-lir-1-pos-6-1.telkom-ipnet.co.za (196.43.9.49) 263.727 ms 263.714 ms 263.703 ms
13 wblv-ip-esr-2-gig-6-0-0.telkom-ipnet.co.za (196.43.23.114) 266.421 ms 267.542 ms 267.532 ms
14 tiscali-backup-gw.telkom-ipnet.co.za (196.25.3.42) 267.017 ms 267.754 ms 267.574 ms
15 cpt-ipc1.mweb.co.za (196.41.144.20) 268.058 ms 268.298 ms 268.081 ms
16 * * *

As you can see they use SAIX transit, who said they will not be making use of Seacom.