High latency, please ping...

Gamos said:
My ADSL feels sluggish when gaming online (especially international), although speed tests doesn't reveal anything wrong. I also don't see packet loss when pinging a few sites. Before I torture myself by logging a fault with Telkom, could someone using ADSL just ping the below to compare?

www.news24.co.za (I get 50ms avg.)
www.amazon.co.uk (I get 37ms avg.)
www.bbc.co.uk (I get 240ms avg.)
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You would need to add your city, so someone from the same city can do the test, to be as accurate as possible..

I will add, your international latency seems a tad high.. local is ok, depending on where you are located and where the local sites you pinged are located..
 
WAslayer said:
You would need to add your city, so someone from the same city can do the test, to be as accurate as possible..

I will add, your international latency seems a tad high.. local is ok, depending on where you are located and where the local sites you pinged are located..
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Indeed. It also could mean Interleaved vs Fast Path. So location and whether it's FP or Interleaved is important here.
 
Gamos said:
My ADSL feels sluggish when gaming online (especially international), although speed tests doesn't reveal anything wrong. I also don't see packet loss when pinging a few sites. Before I torture myself by logging a fault with Telkom, could someone using ADSL just ping the below to compare?

www.news24.co.za (I get 50ms avg.)
www.amazon.co.uk (I get 37ms avg.)
www.bbc.co.uk (I get 240ms avg.)
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I'm on Vox right now and this is what I'm getting... Will check Afrihost later as well if you want.

www.news24.co.za (44ms)
www.amazon.co.uk (188ms)
www.bbc.co.uk (19ms)

AfriNatic said:
Indeed. It also could mean Interleaved vs Fast Path. So location and whether it's FP or Interleaved is important here.
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My connection is set to Interleaved. I have my 20Mb VDSL line through Afrihost. Am I right that having it set to Fast Path would improve my latency, but reduce my upload speed form 5Mb to 2Mb?
 
Totempole said:
I'm on Vox right now and this is what I'm getting... Will check Afrihost later as well if you want.

www.news24.co.za (44ms)
www.amazon.co.uk (188ms)
www.bbc.co.uk (19ms)


My connection is set to Interleaved. I have my 20Mb VDSL line through Afrihost. Am I right that having it set to Fast Path would improve my latency, but reduce my upload speed form 5Mb to 2Mb?
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On VDSL2 it shouldn't, it can handle that upload fine. The question is more whether Telkom would allow it with their profiles.
 
Soul Assassin said:
I had 45Mbps down 10Mbps up VDSL on Fast Path.
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Yeah, just Telkom at one point decided to move everyone to interleaved, on ADSL at one point anyone who got fast path was randomly changed back to interleaved again at one point.
I don't know anyone on DSL anymore though, pretty much everyone I know who had DSL is now on fiber (Cape Town).
 
AfriNatic said:
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Hol' up...

How does he get www.amazon.co.uk (37ms avg.) on ADSL

But I get 172 on fibre? :eek:

Pinging amazon.co.uk [54.239.34.171] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 54.239.34.171: bytes=32 time=172ms TTL=228
Reply from 54.239.34.171: bytes=32 time=172ms TTL=228
Reply from 54.239.34.171: bytes=32 time=172ms TTL=228
Reply from 54.239.34.171: bytes=32 time=172ms TTL=228

Ping statistics for 54.239.34.171:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 172ms, Maximum = 172ms, Average = 172ms
 
Rickster said:
Hol' up...

How does he get www.amazon.co.uk (37ms avg.) on ADSL

But I get 172 on fibre? :eek:

Pinging amazon.co.uk [54.239.34.171] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 54.239.34.171: bytes=32 time=172ms TTL=228
Reply from 54.239.34.171: bytes=32 time=172ms TTL=228
Reply from 54.239.34.171: bytes=32 time=172ms TTL=228
Reply from 54.239.34.171: bytes=32 time=172ms TTL=228

Ping statistics for 54.239.34.171:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 172ms, Maximum = 172ms, Average = 172ms
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Do you have a trace route for me? We have AWS direct connect active.

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AfriNatic said:
Do you have a trace route for me? We have AWS direct connect active.

View attachment 987894
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PS C:\Users\zZGodSlayer69Zz> tracert amazon.co.uk

Tracing route to amazon.co.uk [54.239.34.171]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 6 ms 13 ms 2 ms 102-182-228-1.ip.afrihost.joburg [102.182.228.1]
3 3 ms 4 ms 5 ms tobitropin.net.afrihost.co.za [169.1.1.161]
4 2 ms 3 ms 2 ms lucopel.net.afrihost.co.za [169.1.1.129]
5 3 ms 2 ms 2 ms 169-1-21-91.ip.afrihost.co.za [169.1.21.91]
6 4 ms 2 ms 2 ms 196-60-9-105.ixp.joburg [196.60.9.105]
7 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms 52.93.56.8
8 3 ms 3 ms 2 ms 52.93.56.23
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 172 ms 172 ms 172 ms 54.239.34.171

Trace complete.

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Rickster said:
PS C:\Users\zZGodSlayer69Zz> tracert amazon.co.uk

Tracing route to amazon.co.uk [54.239.34.171]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 6 ms 13 ms 2 ms 102-182-228-1.ip.afrihost.joburg [102.182.228.1]
3 3 ms 4 ms 5 ms tobitropin.net.afrihost.co.za [169.1.1.161]
4 2 ms 3 ms 2 ms lucopel.net.afrihost.co.za [169.1.1.129]
5 3 ms 2 ms 2 ms 169-1-21-91.ip.afrihost.co.za [169.1.21.91]
6 4 ms 2 ms 2 ms 196-60-9-105.ixp.joburg [196.60.9.105]
7 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms 52.93.56.8
8 3 ms 3 ms 2 ms 52.93.56.23
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 172 ms 172 ms 172 ms 54.239.34.171

Trace complete.

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That is odd. Can you just send me your clientzone email address again. Let me ask Noc to have a look for me.
 
Gamos said:
Thank you to everyone.

I think my router might be the culprit.

Last night I connected a laptop via Wifi, sitting right next to the router. I got 150ms latency and timeouts trying to connect to its admin page (192.168.1.1). It would average 3-4ms when I ping the router, and then shoot up to 150ms and even higher. It's a slow, frustrating mess trying to navigate menus when you eventually do get in.

The strange thing is, the speedtests are giving me 10 down/1 up without issue, and I don't see packet loss, just higher latency with the Internet sites I ping.

I haven't tested on LAN cable (I'll do tonight), but my Xbox is on the LAN cable and I'm seeing 300ms latency where I usually get 200ms internationally.

Pinging straight from the router seems to give me somewhat better latency, but I haven't done a side by side. CPU and Memory usage on the router is fine.
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Could be. But even 3-4ms on a local LAN would be a red flag to me. Something is wrong if it ain't <1
 
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