Hi MWEB Guy, as discussed I ran some more tests. I used the following ISP's: MWEB Uncapped, Afrihost, Webafrica, Telkom (guest Account).
The results where all similar. After logging in with the different accounts the initial latency is low (as what I'm accustomed to), however after about 10-20min the latency increases. The only account that never displays this latency decay seems to be the Telkom guest account.
I also ran some speed test, using the saix.net speed test. The Telkom guest account has the lowest latency to the Cape Town server, and also the highest down and upload speeds. (I'll PM you some screenshots, along with the other info).
I also conducted these test at various times over the weekend to rule out any possible congestion issues. The results where the same, regardless of time of day.
TLDR: All accounts except the Telkom guest account display latency deterioration. The telkom Guest account has the highest download speed. I'm in Stellenbosch (Dalsig). This started to happen around Wednesday.
Any input, suggestions, help welcome.
Gus
Here are the tracert's: (The destination is the server I log into play Warcraft)
Afrihost, right after resetting the router...happy days:
Tracing route to 195.12.238.193 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms 105-236-8-193-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236.8.193]
3 10 ms 11 ms 10 ms ipc-recieve-tb-2a.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.54.86]
4 10 ms 10 ms 11 ms 41.181.184.28
5 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms compj-cpt-1.mtnns.net [196.44.18.2]
6 175 ms 192 ms 183 ms ls-cr-2--tb-cr-1.uk-b.mtnns.net [196.44.31.113]
7 164 ms 164 ms 167 ms am-cr-1.nl--ls-cr-2.uk-a.mtnns.net [196.44.31.183]
8 163 ms 162 ms 163 ms am-tpr-1.nl--am-cr-1.nl-a.mtn.net [209.212.111.141]
Afrihost, Things going pear shaped:
Tracing route to 195.12.238.193 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2
338 ms 327 ms 292 ms 105-236-8-193-esr-lo.mtnbusiness.co.za [105.236.8.193]
3 459 ms 14 ms 10 ms ipc-recieve-tb-2a.mtnbusiness.net [41.181.54.86]
4 250 ms 322 ms 322 ms 41.181.184.28
5 445 ms 322 ms 282 ms compj-cpt-1.mtnns.net [196.44.18.2]
6 379 ms 604 ms 610 ms jp-nt-1--pe-ad-1-a.mtnns.net [196.44.31.113]
7 517 ms 549 ms 602 ms am-cr-1.nl--ls-cr-2.uk-a.mtnns.net [196.44.31.183]
8 600 ms 602 ms 603 ms am-tpr-1.nl--am-cr-1.nl-a.mtn.net [209.212.111.141]
9 427 ms 525 ms 603 ms xe-4-1-0.edge5.Amsterdam1.Level3.net [212.72.41.89]
10 526 ms 603 ms 496 ms
MWEB, happy days, right after router reset:
Tracing route to 195.12.238.193 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 10 ms 9 ms 9 ms 41-133-134-1.dsl.mweb.co.za [41.133.134.1]
3 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms te1-1-0.505.cpt-ipc-1.mweb.co.za [196.28.178.178]
4 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 197-84-3-2.cpt.mweb.co.za [197.84.3.2]
5 158 ms 156 ms 159 ms 197-84-5-242.cpt.mweb.co.za [197.84.5.242]
6 159 ms 158 ms 159 ms 197-84-4-197.cpt.mweb.co.za [197.84.4.197]
7 185 ms 186 ms 188 ms 176.67.177.148
8 154 ms 154 ms 153 ms ldn-b5-link.telia.net [62.115.13.17]
9 232 ms 154 ms 153 ms ldn-bb2-link.telia.net [80.91.246.146]
10 161 ms 162 ms 161 ms prs-bb2-link.telia.net [80.91.246.177]
11 163 ms 179 ms 163 ms prs-b8-link.telia.net [213.155.131.15]
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 *
MWEB Going pear shaped:
Tracing route to 195.12.238.193 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 <1 ms <1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2
290 ms 322 ms 9 ms 41-133-134-1.dsl.mweb.co.za [41.133.134.1]
3 197 ms 322 ms 324 ms te1-1-0.505.cpt-ipc-1.mweb.co.za [196.28.178.178]
4 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 197-84-3-2.cpt.mweb.co.za [197.84.3.2]
5 409 ms 158 ms 538 ms 197-84-5-242.cpt.mweb.co.za [197.84.5.242]
6 502 ms 484 ms 608 ms 197-84-4-197.cpt.mweb.co.za [197.84.4.197]
7 543 ms 654 ms 581 ms 176.67.177.148
8 560 ms 364 ms 647 ms ldn-b5-link.telia.net [62.115.13.17]
9 554 ms 609 ms 154 ms ldn-bb2-link.telia.net [80.91.246.146]
10 630 ms 612 ms 606 ms prs-bb2-link.telia.net [80.91.246.177]
11 540 ms 615 ms 614 ms prs-b8-link.telia.net [213.155.131.15]
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 *
Particularly bad tracert, MWEB:
racing route to 195.12.238.193 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 1545 ms 755 ms 135 ms 41-133-134-1.dsl.mweb.co.za [41.133.134.1]
3 227 ms 322 ms 482 ms te1-1-0.505.cpt-ipc-1.mweb.co.za [196.28.178.178]
4 446 ms 482 ms 512 ms 197-84-3-2.cpt.mweb.co.za [197.84.3.2]
5 709 ms 506 ms 159 ms 197-84-5-242.cpt.mweb.co.za [197.84.5.242]
6 738 ms 830 ms 558 ms 197-84-4-197.cpt.mweb.co.za [197.84.4.197]
7 159 ms 159 ms 159 ms
And then the tracert's using the Telkom guest account, rock solid to the first hop (where the latency issues manifest for the other ISP's)
Tracing route to 195.12.238.193 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 10 ms 9 ms 8 ms dsl-165-145-70-01.telkomadsl.co.za [165.145.70.1]
3 *
All the Telkom tracert's look like this, not going to duplicate them.
Here are the speedtest using saix.net. Top two screenshots are Afrihost and MWEB, last one is Telkom Guest Account.
View attachment 62339