Crap ping with ADSL

[Rubber Bullets]

Sorry if this has been done before but here goes.

I have just become an lpb, or at least I thought I had. ADSL was installed 2 weeks ago, and the first time I did a refresh of my favourites all BW servers were between 30 and 70.

Since then it has got worse and worse, a refresh now show 100-200 on almost all servers, with in game ping fluctuating from 50 to 3 or 4 hundred. The other day it went over 1500, I thought those days were past.

Where does the problem lie? If I do a speed test here:


http://www1.zdnet.co.uk/misc/band-test/speedtest50.html

I still get 497 kbps or 61 K/bytes per second, which suggests that the problem isn't my connection, but is it BW?

Any advice gratefully recieved.

Schadenfreude aka Rubber Bullets

 

[Moving Target]

no it isnt BW - its your connection

 

[ShockingAlberto]

its most likely your routing to BW.
either use neotrace or similar proggy, or use the DOS function tracert.
the line you want in dos is
tracert 213.221.174.38 >> bwtrace.txt
perplex has posted this reply several times, so you are posting the same stuff.
paste in your results, youll either find your being routed through america or something insane, or one of the hops has an unstable ping.

 

[Rubber Bullets]

Thanks for those, I have downloaded Neotrace, what do I put in for my search target? One of the game servers?

Thanks

s

 

[Rubber Bullets]

OK so I tried a couple of IP addresses in Neotrace, and the line heads off towards france and ends in a question mark.

Not sure what to do next. sorry.

s

 

[ShockingAlberto]

that sort of answeres your question then.
your ISP is routing you through france, where one of the hops is completely whacked.
before you were proberbly still being routed through france, but with no problems. you could have had a lower ping.

who's your ISP?
try emailing them /contact their support, and if they dont reply then ring them up and explain that they're routing you to certain ISps through a dead hop.

 

[old.Soul]

if its BTO u may join me on the hunt for them i call it the HUNT for a C**T well u can guess, but try a diff number after the @hg anyway good luck brother, post here if u cure it, but i wont hold my breath, finding a quiet hg number seems to b best way, but then more ppl get on them and u have to find another quiet 1, vicious and circle spring to mind



Soul

 

[Rubber Bullets]

Yeah soul, it's BT, I guess they're getting my £40 per month now, why should they give a fuck? I'm in for a year at least.

I'll see how it goes and give it a try, but I won't hold my breath.

s

Edit after closer reading of Soul's post

My hg no is 11, can I change it? Do I need another password? I'd not really noticed it before. Sorry should have read what you wrote better the first time

 

[ShockingAlberto]

get on the phone ot BT and shout. loudly
if your not naturally a bolshy person it may not seem natural, but when youve finnished, youll feel alot better and be glad you did it

 

[Rubber Bullets]

I'm not a naturally bolshy person, but with BT I think I could probably learn to be.



Thanks for that Shocking

s

 

[*Kornholio*]

Same isp - same problem - BTO sux0rs... here's to you BT

 

[old.Soul]

yea u can change hg number, some will work some wont, assume busniess and home have diff ones (with the home ones being poo i'll bet) but just try diff number with your pass, it might logon it might tell u to bog off, it might b better it might b worse, experiment m8 good luck

Soul

 

[Wij]

BTO didn't let me on last night at all :/

 

[old.kalashnikovs]

You think you've got it bad, i've got cable and we are currently only receiving about half of our service. It will randomly cut off, which can be highly annoying when playing clan matchs.
If i ever find Mr. NTL, he's going to have to take the punishment he rightfully deserves.

 

[old.Sgt CRASHNBURNS]

Lo, what you need is a 14.99 dial up conection.....you know it makes sense.

By the way :sleeping: is looking unlikely!

See ya

 

[Rubber Bullets]

E-mailed BT last night.

No reply yet.


BUT better pings tonight!! I'm killing people with my Glock again


(it can't last)

s

 

[shabazz]

Glad i didnt get bto

 

[TipTop]

Add me to the list of BTO suxorz. Still pinging 500+, still complaining, and still nothing. Anybody else want £40 a month for doing f'all. In fact I think it'll be quicker if somebody could mail me screen shots of my next clan match, it least I stand a better chance of playing!

Me -> <- BT

TT

 

[natrat]

Loads of BTO customers are complaining about these problems. I hope you get them sorted.

If you want to trace to BW, please use the address proxyscan.quakenet.org which is on the BW network. You can't actually trace to a game server itself because of filtering we've implemented on our network.

cheers,
n

 

[Rubber Bullets]

Thanks for that address, natrat, that now makes more sense. I no longer have a line heading vaguely off towards france.

I am being routed through 15 nodes, but I have no idea if this is good or bad (complete noob to this kind of thing)

Any thoughts?

Thanks

s

 

[Will]

Post it up, and let us look.

 

[Rubber Bullets]

If I've done it right it is this:

NeoTrace Trace Version 3.25 - TRIAL Results
Target: proxyscan.quakenet.org
Date: 01/11/01 (Thursday), 13:47:05
Nodes: 15


Node Data
Node Net Reg IP Address Location Node Name
1 - - 213.123.226.183 Torbay oemcomputer
2 1 - 62.7.251.1 Unknown
3 2 - 172.16.109.22 Unknown
4 2 - 172.16.100.42 Unknown
5 2 - 172.16.93.210 Unknown
6 2 - 172.16.93.66 Unknown
7 3 - 213.120.207.221 Unknown
8 3 1 62.6.197.34 Aylesbury Vale core2-gig10-1.bletchley.ukcore.bt.net
9 4 1 62.6.196.249 Ealing core2-pos13-0.ealing.ukcore.bt.net
10 5 1 194.74.65.21 Sutton core2-pos10-0.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net
11 6 2 195.66.225.30 Greenwich gige2-0-llb-x-lx.he15.core.rtr.uk.xo.net
12 5 2 194.143.163.211 Unknown gb1-0-0-llb-x-many.he5.core.rtr.uk.xo.net
13 - - 195.224.254.169 Unknown
14 - - 194.143.162.234 Unknown
15 7 3 213.221.173.2 Unknown proxyscan.quakenet.org


Packet Data
Node High Low Avg Tot Lost
1 0 0 0 1 0
2 306 22 117 31 0
3 56 21 24 31 0
4 32 22 23 32 1
5 26 22 23 32 1
6 31 22 23 31 0
7 81 23 47 31 1
8 90 22 32 32 3
9 89 23 33 30 0
10 62 25 34 30 0
11 83 25 33 30 0
12 215 26 33 30 0
13 81 26 52 32 2
14 190 26 34 31 1
15 47 25 36 31 1


Network Data
Network id#: 1
154 St Albans Rd
Sandridge
St Albans
Hertfordshire
AL4 9NH
GB

Network id#: 2
IANA (IANA-BBLK-RESERVED)
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330

Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695

US

Network id#: 3
154 St Albans Rd
Sandridge
St Albans
Hertfordshire
AL4 9NH
GB

Network id#: 4
European Regional Internet Registry/RIPE NCC (NETBLK-RIPE-C3)
These addresses have been further assigned to European users.
Contact info can be found in the RIPE database, via the
WHOIS and TELNET servers at whois.ripe.net, and at
http://www.ripe.net/db/whois.html
NL

Network id#: 5
European Regional Internet Registry/RIPE NCC (NETBLK-RIPE-C2)
These addresses have been further assigned to European users.
Contact info can be found in the RIPE database, via the
WHOIS and TELNET servers at whois.ripe.net, and at
http://www.ripe.net/db/whois.html
NL

Network id#: 6
European Regional Internet Registry/RIPE NCC (NETBLK-RIPE-C)
These addresses have been further assigned to European users.
Contact info can be found in the RIPE database, via the
WHOIS and TELNET servers at whois.ripe.net, and at
http://www.ripe.net/db/whois.html
NL

Network id#: 7
European Regional Internet Registry/RIPE NCC (NETBLK-213-RIPE)
These addresses have been further assigned to European users.
Contact info can be found in the RIPE database, via the
WHOIS and TELNET servers at whois.ripe.net, and at
http://www.ripe.net/db/whois.html
NL



Registrant Data
Registrant id#: 1
Registrant:
British Telecommunications Plc (BT2-DOM)
81 Newgate Street
London, Greater London EC1A 7AJ
GB

Registrant id#: 2
Registrant:
XO Communications, Inc (XO56-DOM)
1400 Parkmoor Avenue
San Jose, CA 95126-3429
US

Registrant id#: 3
Registrant:
Dexterus Ltd (QUAKENET5-DOM)
16th Floor, CityPoint
1 Ropemaker Street, London EC2Y 9AW
UK

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Sorry it's so long

s

 

[isuck]

ADSL sucks

ADSL sucks. If cable isnt available in your area you are better off spending your cash on drugs or women, or save up and move to an area with cable.

People have high aspirations for ADSL and are more often than not disappointed. Can anyone remember BT doing anything right????

I dont know why im bothering here because im a nice happy NTL cable modem user (lpb) and all you ADSL users (hpw) are frag bait, except for the slight problem that low ping doesnt improove my aim.

Anyway,

 

[Wij]

Still can't get online with BTo

 

[Embattle]

That must suck large.

 

[Wij]

It deep-throats buffalo m8

 

[Embattle]

I guess you'll have to stick with pron

 

[Wij]

pr0n normally arrives via BTOpenpr0n. Without the connection I'm kinda stuck. I can't do it at work can I ?

 

[old.FatalDonkey]

Dont ever think that ADSL sux0rs its just BT that sux0rs

I have DEMON adsl and i have a great ping. Dunno whether anyone has seen me online i ussually play as Angeloflag but i never have any probs with my ping.

So if you wanna get adsl.... Dont be a n00b

GET DEMON ADSL

 

[natrat]

I have demon business ADSL and it's pretty much perfect.