La Montagne, Pretoria - Congested exchange

[HavocXphere]

C:\Users\HX>tracert google.co.za

Tracing route to google.co.za [74.125.233.55]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 10.0.0.2
2 413 ms 414 ms 435 ms 196-210-142-129.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.1
2.129]
3 384 ms 348 ms 323 ms cdsl1-rba-vl2153.ip.isnet.net [196.38.73.169]
4 403 ms 438 ms 482 ms cdsl1-rba-vl150.ip.isnet.net [196.38.73.17]
5 ^C
C:\Users\HX>tracert google.co.za

Tracing route to google.co.za [74.125.233.87]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 547 ms 539 ms 534 ms ti-224-64-01.telkomadsl.co.za [105.224.64.1] (<First hop, dialed PPPoE so no router hop)
2 465 ms 485 ms 510 ms ti-224-0-06.telkomadsl.co.za [105.224.0.6]
3 503 ms 472 ms ^C
C:\Users\ms>

The first hop after the router is heavily congested at specific times - mostly during the evening and Friday & Saturday night in particular. All that is a royal pain in the arse since that is pretty much the only time I'm at home & can utilize the ADSL.

It recovers later in the evening 22h00+.

Tried:

• Two different backbones (IS/OW & SAIX/TI)
• Checked line stats - looks good, no errors
• Used firewall to check that nothing is using the line
• Reset router

I would have tried a port reset too, but got tired of the endless "Your call is important to us" loop on 10210.

EDIT: Missing info per the sticky.

012 803 ****

 	Downstream	Upstream
Line Coding(Trellis):	On 	On 
SNR Margin (dB):	173 	120 
Attenuation (dB):	295 	180 
Output Power (dBm):	80 	91 
Attainable Rate (Kbps):	8320 	908 
Rate (Kbps):	2048 	512 
D (interleaver depth):	1 	1 
Delay (msec):	0.13 	0.25

Stats show zero dropped packets & zero errors.

 

[HavocXphere]

The above tracerts where taken round about 20h00 on a Friday. Now for 23h00 on a Friday (same day)

C:\Users\HX>ping google.com

Pinging google.com [74.125.233.69] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 74.125.233.69: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=55
Reply from 74.125.233.69: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=55
Reply from 74.125.233.69: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=55
Reply from 74.125.233.69: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=55

Ping statistics for 74.125.233.69:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 15ms, Maximum = 16ms, Average = 15ms

C:\Users\ms>

 

[HavocXphere]

*sigh*. 23h20 and its still crap.

250 ping to mybroadband on multiple ISPs despite firewall showing zero other apps interfering. Thats like a mere 1000% increase in latency beyond the norm.

Crap congested exchange FTL. I shudder to think what will happen when Telkom doubles the sync rates.

Anyway...off to play a single player game seeing how my expensive ADSL link is too shtty for gaming.