trace route / ADSL + Telkom Internet

[thedoc!]

Is it that tracert is blocked on ADSL - or is this something that only I am experiencing?

I can Ping OK.

/doc

 

[Turtle]

I just did a tracert to www.google.com OK (Telkom ADSL + TelkomInternet). I have been having severe problems with international FTP though (extremely slow e.g. 37 bytes per second if I'm LUCKY otherwise just timeouts and disconnects)... it's been nearly useless the last couple of days. I also generally have problems like slowness or disconnects with POP3 from ANY server (local or int.) except Telkom's --- I'm suspecting it's a combination of Telkom's shaping being overaggressive and full of issues, and 'busy times' traffic-wise .... ? I don't know.

It's been generally slow for about a week or two now though. Now that Telkom has stopped all the "abusers", I thought things were supposed to become faster (sarcasm, we know they're liars). Hmm .. here's a likely theory, maybe when Telkom tightened the screws November 1st, they also correspondingly slashed the amount of international bandwidth they buy, and we're all now being contended at an even higher ratio than before!

 

[thedoc!]

Turtle - I mean I cant tracert ever since i signed up for the service some 10 days ago.... See what I get:

C:\Documents and Settings\thedoc!>tracert www.telkomsa.net

Tracing route to www.telkomsa.net [196.25.211.40]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 * * * Request timed out.
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 8 ms 27 ms 27 ms 196.25.211.40

Trace complete.

However I can ping OK - what do you guys think could be causing this?

/doc

 

[Turtle]

C:\Documents and Settings\(X)>tracert www.telkomsa.net

Tracing route to www.telkomsa.net [196.25.211.40]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 11 ms 10 ms 10 ms tbnb-165-192-01.telkomadsl.co.za [165.165.192.1]
3 11 ms 10 ms 10 ms tbnb-ip-er-1-fe-9-0-0-1.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.10.121]
4 13 ms 12 ms 13 ms rndf-ip-er-1-atm-4-1-0-209.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.11.210]
5 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms intekom-34meg-gw.gt.saix.net [196.25.245.50]
6 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms 196.25.211.40

Trace complete.


Could it be a firewall setting?

 

[fragtion]

Jeez Turtle those are nice ping results.
You using RASPPPoE on your gateway by any chance?
I ping 17 to first hop (165.146.64.1) min.
How far are you from your exchange ?

 

[thedoc!]

Hi Turtle - Seems it was the firewall setting on the Marconi router..
Cheers!!

/doc