Slow speeds on UPC all week.

FloatingVoter

Seems alright now though there was a bad period about 12.30 - 1 PM.
Then the Dublin test was crap, but testing to Galway gave perfect results...

mccreesj

FloatingVoter wrote: »

Seems alright now though there was a bad period about 12.30 - 1 PM.
Then the Dublin test was crap, but testing to Galway gave perfect results...

Still rubbish here in Dublin 24. (20mb)

FloatingVoter

Weird, and I didn't change any settings or anything. Irony is, I'm not even a gamer. Its the download speed that gets me.

mccreesj

mccreesj wrote: »

Still rubbish here in Dublin 24. (20mb)

Mandrake01

Skittle wrote: »

So if you think you have a problem, find the name/ip address of the server you are trying to connect too and then going into a DOS window.
type: tracert <ip address> and post your results here.

Tracert results for me always show a single hop. I use a cisco modem and have a mate who is a cisco engineer, and he'd never seen this before. I've tried downloading other trace programs, with the same test results, a single high latency hop when having problems, and a single regular ping hop when things are running smoothly.
But I'm not alone, there's a thread about it here:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055649994

15:20 now, all clear in Lucan. I was up til about 5am this morning, the connection was fine from about 1am until when I finally went to bed. Not sure what it's been like here earlier today, but as usual, I'm hoping it's sorted.

@cdb, sorry to hear about your trek through ISP hell, but (as I'm sure you know) that doesnt sound related to this issue. This fault appeared on Saturday night, and does not include the symptom of complete loss of connectivity, just bandwidth and latency degradation. It would affect any connection, not just the 10mb and 20mb, so if your 3mb has been stable this week, consider yourself lucky to be excluded.

Canaboid

This issue was flagged with a senior engineer and I'm told it's now resolved.
Here's hoping.

FloatingVoter

in Dublin 8

Lets hope Canaboid is right. Touching every piece of wood in sight (my head included).;)

Carragherisgod

Canaboid wrote: »

This issue was flagged with a senior engineer and I'm told it's now resolved.
Here's hoping.

May I be so bold as to ask who told you this? What I mean is if it was a UPC employee then fine but if it was some bloke you met in the pub I'd be a wee bit sceptical

Dublin_Gunner

Carragherisgod wrote: »

May I be so bold as to ask who told you this? What I mean is if it was a UPC employee then fine but if it was some bloke you met in the pub I'd be a wee bit sceptical

I doubt the issue would be 'flagged' with anyone that doesn't work in UPC :rolleyes:

Canaboid

Carragherisgod wrote: »

May I be so bold as to ask who told you this? What I mean is if it was a UPC employee then fine but if it was some bloke you met in the pub I'd be a wee bit sceptical

What if it was a UPC employee that I met in the Pub ?

FloatingVoter

A journalistic answer e.g. "an informed source" would make me happy:)

Carragherisgod

shatter05

It seems to be a few issues over the last 2 weeks now getting worse, nice upgrade to make the system stable pity didnt advise people tut tut.

we play cod4 server a lot for the past few years never any real issues. untill now.

89.101.162.129 ntl ireland
84.116.238.2 at provider ntl
213.46.160.89 ntl links interconnecting europe >>from here ping has doubled
213.46.174.34 ntl links and loopback uk
213.46.174.78 ntl links and loopback uk
213.46.174.6 ntl links and loopback uk
4.69.139.106 us leve3 coms >> lol linked as london server in us
217.163.26.223 destination.

clearly we can see ntl is controling the routing of these packets and not going intended direct to server.
as On a progressive scan I can see ntl loopback server causing random high pings up to 300 for few ms causing more delay. End result is world travel and bad ping.

Issue is not with all servers but wish they fix there routing issues so can get back to some proper gaming. Most likely due to these routing issues also the cause of there dns issues every now and then for the past week.

Tried there help support several people several times cant say we made any progress just wish they would listen to the facts.

pixelburp

Hmmm well I don't want to jinx it, but my speeds have also gone back to something a little more like normal. That dodgy hop on the traceroute seems to have settled down:

Tracing route to rte.ie [89.207.56.140]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms xxxxxxx
2 8 ms 10 ms 7 ms xxxxxxxxx
3 7 ms 6 ms 7 ms 089-101-162001.ntlworld.ie [89.101.162.1]
4 27 ms 7 ms 8 ms 84.116.238.2
5 12 ms 8 ms 14 ms 84.116.238.22
6 11 ms 100 ms 8 ms deg-gw-1.rte.ie [193.242.111.42]
7 9 ms 9 ms 8 ms www.rte.ie [89.207.56.140]

shatter05

remember your in ireland well most of ye, spedtest site is in america, you will get random and untrustworthy results. My best result is

lol

also even trace to speedtest site you see below massive ping near end.

Freddie59

Dublin_Gunner

Seems to be ok at the moment, but I'm not holding my breath on it staying that way. (10 meg obviously)

FloatingVoter

Positive vibes, folks;)

Dublin_Gunner

just did a tracert to multiplay.co.uk, as usual, single hop 34ms.

darraghn

Back to normal now for me. D16.

FloatingVoter

seems ok still in dublin 8

pixelburp

For god sake, nobody touch anything! Don't even breath on your routers!

Ranicand

pixelburp wrote: »

For god sake, nobody touch anything! Don't even breath on your routers!

Yes don't touch a thing.:eek:

Skittle

Mines looking good too

Ranicand

Skittle wrote: »

Mines looking good too

I0 meg package please keep it that way UPC.

white apples

Mine is crap, anyone any recommendations on anything I can do to speed it up?

Ranicand

white apples wrote: »

Mine is crap, anyone any recommendations on anything I can do to speed it up?

Fine here

Are you connected to your modem or are you going through a wireless router?

If you are going through a wireless router you may be on a bad channel that one of the people that live near you are using.

Connect straight into the modem.

If you are connect into the modem already well then you are having problems.

DingDong

I don't remember my ping on speedtest being this good. This is tested over my wireless network usually its around mid 20's

Ranicand

DingDong wrote: »

I don't remember my ping on speedtest being this good. This is tested over my wireless network usually its around mid 20's

10 meg pack here please UPC keep this up please.

Fresh Pots

mccreesj wrote: »

Also noticed that over the past few weeks, the "enet" and "recv" lights on my ntl:250 modem are constantly flashing.

Same thing happening with my modem. Anyone know what the modem is doing, what is it receiving? All the activity is causing my modem and router to heat up like mad.