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Playboy

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I have brought about this subject once before but I would like to know if any1 could help me sort "another" 1 of telkom's stupid routing ideas.

Well I live in the Free State in Welkom which is about roughly 200-250km from JHB. Telkom have routed me to Durban which is im not sure the exact distance but around 600-700 km from where i stay. This creates alot of distance, Increases my ping tremendously and makes my gaming of which i mainly got this for ,increasingly dissapointing.

I am currently playing counter strike 1.6 Online and my pings are no less than 50, at around 70 most of the time. This for adsl is no good. I mean people on isdn rape my ping. I got friends in the same city on ISDN dialing jhb and they get 30 pings, why the heck shud i settle with 70 and such bad lag that when i shoot someone my bullets go through him and dont even register, increasingly annoying lag spikes and everything that comes with lag.

I am extremely pissed off. Does any1 know how i could request for a routing to a more central location such as jhb or pta than having to go through durban.

Funnily when i first got my adsl I had these high pings for the first 3 days, then it went down to around 35-40, that I could still handle but i mean 70+ and crazy lag, no thanku :(

Could any1 plz be so kind to let me know how I could get around this, who I should contact to fix this.

If you phone telkom u get routed from one retard to the next to the next to the next who doesen't have a clue what u speaking about and it ends up in circles.

Thanks
Marco
 
routes arround the ipnet core are not static. The packet will take the best route depending on the network structure.

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Your PING is not bad at all if it sits at around 70. I am in Pretoria and that is about what I am getting. I hope I am not mistaken but that (for South Africa) is not bad at all. Are you sure it isn't just a pretty congested gaming server giving you hassles? The "lag" you experience might actually be the fault of a slow or overloaded server coupled with other slower (ie. modem and ISDN based players) dragging it down.

If you had a ping in the order of 150 + I would be worried...

Cheers

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<br />any1 who could help me out ?
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<br />any1 who could help me out ?
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www.google.com, look up how the internet works.

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In a way I can understand what Playboy is saying.
When I got my ADSL I was routed through JHB and my pings to Saix gameservers averages around 35 and Mweb around 45.
On the 1st October 2003 Telscum routed all Central and Northern Durban ADSL users down the coast to PE/CT and since then my pings average 65.
The worst part is now when I first join a server my pings starts off at around 200 and takes about 2 minutes to settle at 65.
This never used to happen before.
 
Thats exactly the problem ProAsm, Its got nufing do to with sarcastic comments or not knowing how the internet works, its to do with telkoms routings.

Karnaugh , Ure comments are lame, i dont know why u waste our time.
 
just phone telkom and ask to speak to a tech, or get one to phone you back. They did the same thing to me and i'm in cape town ! I phoned them and they changed the routing for me
 
I know all the Telkom techies down here - we have a Telkom "room" in our building. They've tried connecting me to different DSLAMS, different ports etc but still it stays the same.
Until I can get one of them to get me back onto JHB route things wont change but maybe there's some light at the end of the tunnel :)
 
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Uh hu, thanks for that kid, why insult me when you're being too ignorant to understand my answer I posted first time? To which you replied "any1 who could help me out ?".

AS my first post said. Routes are dynamic (See BGP routing). For ADSL this works differently because telkom only have BRAS in Bellville and Rosebank. So if you live in the *** middle of no where you cant expect a decent ping really.

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Karnaugh, before I had adsl.... when It first came out in welkom only untill 3 months ago everyone was routed to jhb but then they changed the bras to durban. People were getting good pings around 20, so it is possible :D
 
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