RoosTa
Expert Member
Since yesterday, I have been getting packet loss of around 1%, but have never had this problem before.
This causes me to get really bad lag spikes while playing games, especially WoW and my performance was terrible in raids where my latency jumped to 3500ms. This only happens when we are fighting, but once everyone is idle, it drops to 400ms.
Again, I've never experienced this problem before and only started after all our lights 'dimmed' (florescent lights turned off completely) briefly - Thanks Eskom.
After doing some pinging (-t) to international and local sites, I get a 1% packet loss, which might not seem like much, but it has a drastic effect on games. If I do a tracert, hops 3 & 4 time-out.
I have tried switching between ISP accounts shaped (cybersmart) & unshaped (axxess), but it didn't seem to matter. Which leads me to believe its a hardware fault and I'm suspecting one of 3 things;
1) Motherboard with onboard network card
2) ADSL Router
3) Telkom Exchange
Is there a way I diagnose the problem to determine where these packets are being lost?
PS If I need to go down route 3, I'll need some solid evidence.
Thanks
EDIT: By examining this tracert, it seems that the fault may lie at Telkom?
This causes me to get really bad lag spikes while playing games, especially WoW and my performance was terrible in raids where my latency jumped to 3500ms. This only happens when we are fighting, but once everyone is idle, it drops to 400ms.
Again, I've never experienced this problem before and only started after all our lights 'dimmed' (florescent lights turned off completely) briefly - Thanks Eskom.
After doing some pinging (-t) to international and local sites, I get a 1% packet loss, which might not seem like much, but it has a drastic effect on games. If I do a tracert, hops 3 & 4 time-out.
I have tried switching between ISP accounts shaped (cybersmart) & unshaped (axxess), but it didn't seem to matter. Which leads me to believe its a hardware fault and I'm suspecting one of 3 things;
1) Motherboard with onboard network card
2) ADSL Router
3) Telkom Exchange
Is there a way I diagnose the problem to determine where these packets are being lost?
PS If I need to go down route 3, I'll need some solid evidence.
Thanks
EDIT: By examining this tracert, it seems that the fault may lie at Telkom?
Code:
Tracing route to 206.16.235.123 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms mygateway1.ar7 [192.168.1.1]
2 20 ms 20 ms 19 ms dsl-146-28-01.telkomadsl.co.za [165.146.28.1]
3 * * 148 ms 196.43.33.166
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 25 ms 23 ms 23 ms 196.43.33.2
6 23 ms 21 ms 20 ms 196.43.33.5
7 220 ms 221 ms 221 ms lon-ip-dir-telecity-gig-4-0-1025.telkom-ipnet.co
.za [196.43.18.121]
8 220 ms 221 ms 222 ms ldn-tch-i1-link.telia.net [213.155.141.153]
9 221 ms 221 ms mygateway1.ar7 [192.168.1.1] reports: Destination protoc
ol unreachable.
Trace complete.
tracert 206.16.235.123
Tracing route to 206.16.235.123 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms mygateway1.ar7 [192.168.1.1]
2 20 ms 21 ms 19 ms dsl-146-28-01.telkomadsl.co.za [165.146.28.1]
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 22 ms 23 ms 21 ms 196.43.33.2
6 22 ms 23 ms 22 ms 196.43.33.5
7 223 ms 220 ms 221 ms lon-ip-dir-telecity-gig-4-0-1025.telkom-ipnet.co
.za [196.43.18.121]
8 222 ms 222 ms 220 ms ldn-tch-i1-link.telia.net [213.155.141.153]
9 222 ms 221 ms mygateway1.ar7 [192.168.1.1] reports: Destination protoc
ol unreachable.
Trace complete.
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with saix shaped, connection was flying till about 45mins ago just suddenly went all slow 