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NTL INEX Peering

  • 24-06-2005 12:04pm
    #1
    bk
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Outstanding work by NTL :D

    A few weeks ago I posted a thread complaining that NTL didn't seem to be peering in INEX. This meant that packets destined for an Irish site went to the UK first, before returning to Ireland. This caused higher ping times, about 45ms to Irish sites compared to a much better figure of about 25ms on Eircoms DSL service.

    Well great news, it now seems pings to many Irish servers (but not all*) are now going through the INEX, meaning ping times that are in the mid teens, beating even Eircom DSL :)

    This is great work by the NTL engineers, they are obviously reading boards and respond when they see a problem. :cool: Keep up the good work, I think we all owe them a few pints.

    * It seems servers hosted by hosting365 and BT Ireland are peering with NTL through INEX, but it seems Eircom hosted sites and maube others are still going through the UK. This might just be a temporary problem.

    See here for some results:

    --- boards.ie ping statistics ---
    20 packets transmitted, 20 received, 0% packet loss, time 19025ms
    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 13.808/17.055/27.880/4.378 ms

    --- games5.iol.ie ping statistics ---
    20 packets transmitted, 20 received, 0% packet loss, time 19030ms
    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 11.462/12.994/19.599/1.684 ms

    --- entertainment.ie ping statistics ---
    20 packets transmitted, 20 received, 0% packet loss, time 19028ms
    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 15.305/19.299/36.843/5.060 ms

    --- hosting365.ie ping statistics ---
    20 packets transmitted, 20 received, 0% packet loss, time 19024ms
    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 14.611/22.438/43.518/8.864 ms

    WOW, this is fast:

    --- heanet.webhost.heanet.ie ping statistics ---
    20 packets transmitted, 20 received, 0% packet loss, time 19028ms
    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 10.926/12.471/14.652/1.020 ms

    --- vistatec.ie ping statistics ---
    20 packets transmitted, 20 received, 0% packet loss, time 19027ms
    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 15.140/18.512/40.799/5.578 ms

    --- www.netsource.ie ping statistics ---
    20 packets transmitted, 20 received, 0% packet loss, time 19025ms
    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 23.952/25.983/28.851/1.194 ms

    Some others are still going through the UK, which work fine on Netsource DSL:

    --- home.eircom.net ping statistics ---
    10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9011ms
    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 38.717/39.988/42.591/1.293 ms

    --- www.smarttelecom.ie ping statistics ---
    20 packets transmitted, 20 received, 0% packet loss, time 19026ms
    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 55.705/59.782/70.161/3.416 ms

    --- digiweb.ie ping statistics ---
    20 packets transmitted, 20 received, 0% packet loss, time 19029ms
    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 39.920/41.094/42.567/0.730 ms

    On Netsource DSL 2m, digiweb.ie is:
    20 out, 20 in, 0% loss; Time (max/avg/min): 23/21/19

    --- www.ireland.com ping statistics ---
    20 packets transmitted, 20 received, 0% packet loss, time 19026ms
    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 39.452/44.930/73.384/9.967 ms

    On Netsource DSL 2m, www.ireland.com is:
    20 out, 20 in, 0% loss; Time (max/avg/min): 23/20/19


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