Oceannet - Not bad

ButcherOfNog

150ms to UK servers, pretty stable, and free. Some freezes but not enough to make it unplayable, and this is on a wee regional POP so I'm impressed with it.

TwoShedsJackson

Nice to see someone sorting out the modem culchies at last

Rev Hellfire

Yep, I was playing with it last night and found it not to bad at all. Again I had the odd freeze but not near as bad as I get off the wonderous tinet when they come. Maybe this will force the fee taking ISP's to sort there act out.

ButcherOfNog

my suspicions are that they are routing everything through dublin, which is why its good for me, but thats just a wild guess

koloth

they're advertising q2/q3 serves at

http://www.oceanfree.net/games/quake2/servers.html

Can someone post a trace so we know if they're local (can't do this from work).

DEATH

Traceroute 194.75.152.207
This end is where samspade.org lives

1 206.117.161.1 (206.117.161.1) 3.515 ms 192.981 ms
2 isi-acg.ln.net (130.152.136.1) 2.534 ms 2.174 ms
3 s4-1-1.lsajca1-cr3.bbnplanet.net (4.24.40.13) 2.998 ms 3.010 ms
4 p4-1.lsajca1-nbr1.bbnplanet.net (4.24.4.17) 3.094 ms 3.251 ms
5 p2-0.lsajca1-nbr2.bbnplanet.net (4.24.4.22) 3.253 ms 3.162 ms
6 p2-1.sanjose1-nbr1.bbnplanet.net (4.0.1.17) 10.632 ms 11.311 ms
7 p1-0.sanjose1-nbr2.bbnplanet.net (4.0.5.86) 10.652 ms 10.428 ms
8 p4-0.nyc4-nbr2.bbnplanet.net (4.0.5.9) 71.542 ms 72.575 ms
9 p3-1.vienna1-nbr2.bbnplanet.net (4.0.3.129) 76.161 ms 76.285 ms
10 p5-0-0.vienna1-br1.bbnplanet.net (4.0.5.50) 76.484 ms 78.005 ms
11 f0-0.vienna1-cr2.bbnplanet.net (4.1.0.3) 77.366 ms 77.470 ms
12 s0.britishtel.bbnplanet.net (4.1.3.250) 77.535 ms 78.713 ms
13 transit1-h4-0-0.ealing.bt.net (194.72.20.21) 158.216 ms 161.567 ms
14 core2-fe-4-0-0.ealing.bt.net (195.99.120.146) 158.532 ms 157.362 ms
15 core1-h-0-0-5.telehouse.bt.net (195.99.120.19) 182.890 ms 174.327 ms
16 194.74.16.43 (194.74.16.43) 169.730 ms 176.904 ms
17 194.74.74.34 (194.74.74.34) 186.408 ms 175.719 ms
18 sky.springboard.net (194.75.152.207) 170.803 ms 176.791 ms

This end is where the people you're tracerouting to live

This is for the main quake II one
: quake.lineone.net




[This message has been edited by DEATH (edited 11-06-99).]

DEATH

Whois for quake.lineone.net
.net is the global domain of Network services

(Whois queries for .net domains can be performed at http://rs.internic.net/cgi-bin/whois)

whois -h whois.internic.net lineone.net

Registrant:
Springboard Internet Services Ltd (LINEONE3-DOM)
1 Virginia Street
London, London E1 9BD
GB

Domain Name: LINEONE.NET

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
postmaster (PO38-ORG) postmaster@SPRINGBOARD.NET
+44 171 782 4800
Fax- +44 171 782 4841
Billing Contact:
postmaster (PO38-ORG) postmaster@SPRINGBOARD.NET
+44 171 782 4800
Fax- +44 171 782 4841

Record last updated on 02-Jan-98.
Record created on 02-Apr-97.
Database last updated on 10-Jun-99 09:06:51 EDT.

Domain servers in listed order:

BRICKLAYERS-ARMS-S1.SPRINGBOARD.NET 194.75.152.200
NS0.BT.NET 194.72.6.51

Spoonman

Heres my tracert to Barrysworld from oceannet on the portlaoise POP.

1 95 ms 94 ms 94 ms 212.2.175.16
2 98 ms 98 ms 95 ms 212.2.175.29
3 123 ms 125 ms 124 ms 194.73.7.169
4 124 ms 123 ms 121 ms core2-fe-4-0-0.ealing.bt.net [195.99.120.146]
5 161 ms 131 ms 145 ms core2-H-5-0-0.telehouse.bt.net [195.99.120.190]

6 130 ms 130 ms 133 ms 194.74.16.36
7 234 ms 229 ms 230 ms core1.telehouse.level3.net [195.66.224.77]
8 233 ms 230 ms 233 ms 212.113.2.65
9 263 ms 234 ms 231 ms 212.113.2.71
10 142 ms 134 ms 133 ms 212.113.14.2
11 141 ms 139 ms 141 ms ma-atm-155.routers.business.net.uk [194.88.80.10
3]
12 142 ms 146 ms 140 ms bwserver03.barrysworld.com [194.88.93.21]

Things get a bit messy on the 7th hop but seem to calm down a bit near the end. I find it terrible laggy at peak hours but fine after about 11pm onwards with pings in the range of 130~200 to BW servers. PL is minimal only for these quite frequent and anoying disconnections.

TwoShedsJackson

i had remembered the cd this morning Eamo, but i forgot about it before i left the gaff, sorry soon, soon, i promise.

However.... i do happen to have not one, not two, but FIVE tickets booked for The Matrix tonight, so why don't ya come along on the offchance like laters

Suds

lag at peak times ? maybe cos its only a 1.5 mb pipe to UK

like OMG!

tHE vAGGABOND

remember
they have no members yet - pings 150 - 200

they will have lots of members - pings of lots

If noggy got 150 - 200 pings with some lag, and they prolly had like 5 members yesterday, in 2 months, 500,000 free CD's later they will be the worlds worst

its an free ISP, you should all read todays business section of the Times today, there are several big articles on the whole free ISP thing and TE generally being *****s

BTW any roomers out there on what that Ethan Doyle woman is gonna say in here report.......

---

The Vaggabond of the Western World
Electric Mayhem
www.planet-tribes.com/em
www.tribesplayers.co.uk

ButcherOfNog

well dell are rolling out their free ISP europewide so we'll have another one when that arrives. yeah no doubt oceannet will begin to crawl when numbers sign up, but then DNA may be nationwide, they're hoping to avoid having regional pops.
DNA say :

Right now we would need a physical pop in each area. But there are
documents with the ODTR which may allow for the introduction of a
non-geographic type 1891 number.

Emm anyone know what the ODTR is?

Spoonman

But oceanfree does give the best pings to the uk at non peak hours. I was playing on claranet with a ping of ~130ms the other night! My connection felt better than any Dublin isp dialing even the irish quake servers!
Its a shame about the bandwidth thing tho

[This message has been edited by Spoonman (edited 11-06-99).]

regi

ODTR ( www.odtr.ie ) - Office of the Director of Telecommunications Regulation

They're the Irish telecoms regulatory people, a little like OFTEL in the UK.

Dan

adra

wwman,
u can d/l the software for it on ocreanfrees homepage...
www.oceanfree.net
under help section

WhiteWashMan

and how does one sign up for this splendid isp?
went to creat an email and it asked me where i got my cd from. i said a friend. so now someone has to give me a cd, coz i wouldnt want to be telling porkie pies now, would i?!

TwoShedsJackson

God forbid that you would lie or disguise your identity in any way for any reason whatsoever Eamo, wha??

oh wait last Sun..... <violent coughing fit>

WhiteWashMan

roflmbo

never did find that pebble bloke.
any chance of that apocalyptica cd tonite conor or will i put it there with the promises of marriage?
ie never gonna happen.
dont suppose you happen to have the oceanfree stuff as well?
or any good books to read?
or a couple of tickets to see the matrix tonite?