Hey Mweb Guy. I have tried to collect some information for you about my World of Warcraft issues but they are inconsistent. I seem to be getting packet loss and that is probably the cause of my problems. Can you help me please identify if its my ADSL line (the stats havent really changed, just the downstream noise margin keeps fluctuating a lot between 19-16. It never used to fluctuate so much) or if its Mweb? I know Mweb has been shaping but this problem seems to have only started tuesday this week. Changing to another ISP doesnt alleviate this problem anymore and it leads me to believe it is my line but with no noticeable differences in line stats other than the regular noise fluctuations I am pretty stumped as to the cause.
Just did a tracert thought I should add it:
Tracing route to wow-europe.com [80.239.186.22]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.254
2 9 ms 9 ms 8 ms 41-132-12-1.dsl.mweb.co.za [41.132.12.1]
3 9 ms 10 ms 9 ms tengig-0-0-0-100.vic-ipc-2.mweb.co.za [196.22.16
3.206]
4 10 ms 9 ms 9 ms vl-92.vic-hscore-2.mweb.co.za [196.22.189.3]
5 12 ms 21 ms 14 ms TenGigE0-1-0-0.12.vic-up-1.mweb.co.za [196.22.16
9.241]
6 14 ms 11 ms 12 ms tengige0-3-1-0.mid-up-1.mweb.co.za [196.22.169.9
4]
7 231 ms 231 ms 231 ms pos0-0-2-1.lon-up-1.mweb.co.za [196.22.163.234]
8 234 ms 232 ms 233 ms 149.6.98.5
9 378 ms 231 ms 435 ms te7-6.ccr01.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.36.
165]
10 420 ms 424 ms 422 ms te4-4.mpd02.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.1.
134]
11 * 233 ms 230 ms ldn-b4-link.telia.net [213.248.70.237]
12 268 ms 231 ms 231 ms ldn-bb2-link.telia.net [80.91.250.169]
13 241 ms 240 ms 240 ms prs-bb2-link.telia.net [80.91.247.240]
14 240 ms 238 ms 238 ms prs-b7-link.telia.net [80.91.252.146]
15 239 ms 238 ms 239 ms prs-sdix-i1-link.telia.net [80.91.247.149]
16 * * 80-239-170-114.customer.teliacarrier.com [80.239.170.114]
reports: Destination net unreachable.
Trace complete.
Ping to the HOP I got lost packets:
C:\Users\Zord>ping 213.248.70.237 -t
Pinging 213.248.70.237 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=233ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=231ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=231ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=231ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=232ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=238ms TTL=53
Request timed out.
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=231ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=231ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=232ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=232ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=231ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=232ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=231ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=232ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=232ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=232ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=232ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=231ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=265ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=231ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=231ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=231ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=232ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=232ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=231ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=231ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=231ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=233ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=232ms TTL=53
Request timed out.
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=272ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=234ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=232ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=232ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=230ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=231ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=231ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=232ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=232ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=232ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=232ms TTL=53
Reply from 213.248.70.237: bytes=32 time=232ms TTL=53
Ping statistics for 213.248.70.237:
Packets: Sent = 43, Received = 41, Lost = 2 (4% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 230ms, Maximum = 272ms, Average = 233ms