High pings

[Azimuth-1]

For the past week or so, I've been getting pings of 250+ on local (IS) servers. Tonight, it's been spiking up to 500, and my signal is really erratic, dipping into 60%. I usually have a ping ranging between 70-90 during the evening, with a stable 98-100% reception.

I'm in Plumstead, Cape Town.

 

[Napalm]

Azi, Ping karoo.mweb.co.za (also a gaming server)

I'm located at the CPT Airport Site, using Normal UTD modem.


Pinging karoo.mweb.co.za [196.2.128.100] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 196.2.128.100: bytes=32 time=39ms TTL=120
Reply from 196.2.128.100: bytes=32 time=57ms TTL=120
Reply from 196.2.128.100: bytes=32 time=52ms TTL=120
Reply from 196.2.128.100: bytes=32 time=56ms TTL=120

Ping statistics for 196.2.128.100:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 39ms, Maximum = 57ms, Average = 51ms

 

[Azimuth-1]

Minimum = 63ms, Maximum = 340ms, Average = 139ms

340ms?! :O

I still have a really erratic signal today. This isn't the first time this has happened either. From time to time, for anything up to a week, I'll get a dramatically erratic signal, jumping every second or so from 100% to 60% to 70%, and so on, with a frame error rate as high as 6%. It slows browsing significantly, and makes gaming online a huge pain in the arse. Then it will suddenly clear up, for no apparent reason, and be fine again for weeks.