Argh ping

Molly

Ok someone in my family had the ingenious idea of signing up to eircom subscription account thingy. Fine i thought ping shouldn't be much different but to my horror its ultra high ( isdn btw ). Its about 200 which is quite upsetting to me

Traceroute to eddie.ign.ie


1 29 ms 29 ms 30 ms as1.qkr.cork1.eircom.net [159.134.238.243]
2 164 ms 138 ms 134 ms qkr.cork1.tr1.exs.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.238.129]
3 144 ms 137 ms 128 ms fa1-1-0.core2.adl.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.240.12]
4 101 ms 123 ms 125 ms s0-1-1.core1.cra.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.192.245]
5 177 ms 172 ms 132 ms fa0-0.service2.cra.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.191.71]
6 134 ms 127 ms 131 ms eddie.ign.ie [159.134.244.155]


Would anyone be kind enough to explain to me why the leap between the 1st and 2nd hop is so large and ways in which i can make it less ?

Cheers in advance

dahamsta

From UTV, also on a Cork POP. Bizarre* results.

C:\>tracert eddie.ign.ie

Tracing route to eddie.ign.ie [159.134.244.155] over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    80 ms    80 ms    80 ms  195.218.116.9
  2    70 ms    90 ms    80 ms  195.218.116.9
  3    70 ms    90 ms    90 ms  UTV-DUB-fastethernet0-0.116.218.195.in-addr.arpa [195.218.116.1]
  4   110 ms    90 ms    80 ms  195.218.126.178
  5    90 ms   121 ms   100 ms  irlon-core1-atm5-0-2.nevadatele.com [195.218.126.246]
  6   120 ms   101 ms   100 ms  car1-serial5-1-1-0.Thamesside.cw.net [166.63.214.21]
  7   110 ms    90 ms   110 ms  bcr1.Thamesside.cw.net [166.63.210.61]
  8   170 ms   170 ms   170 ms  dcr2-loopback.NewYork.cw.net [206.24.194.100]
  9   170 ms   180 ms   181 ms  agr3-so-6-0-0.NewYork.cw.net [206.24.207.202]
 10   170 ms   181 ms   190 ms  acr2-loopback.NewYork.cw.net [206.24.194.62]
 11   171 ms   190 ms   210 ms  206.24.193.158
 12   180 ms   181 ms   180 ms  pos6-1-0.core1.cra.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.191.105]
 13   181 ms   180 ms   180 ms  fa0-0.service2.cra.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.191.71]
 14   181 ms   190 ms   190 ms  eddie.ign.ie [159.134.244.155]

Trace complete.

adam

* Word Of The Week

PPC

From UTV

C:\>tracert eddie.ign.ie

Tracing route to eddie.ign.ie [159.134.244.155]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    68 ms    77 ms    77 ms  195.218.116.9
  2    68 ms    68 ms    77 ms  195.218.116.9
  3    64 ms    68 ms    77 ms  UTV-DUB-fastethernet0-0.116.218.195.in-addr.arpa
 [195.218.116.1]
  4    73 ms    77 ms    78 ms  195.218.126.178
  5    86 ms    87 ms    96 ms  irlon-core1-atm5-0-2.nevadatele.com [195.218.126
.246]
  6   297 ms   227 ms   143 ms  car1-serial5-1-1-0.Thamesside.cw.net [166.63.214
.21]
  7    78 ms    96 ms    87 ms  bcr1.Thamesside.cw.net [166.63.210.61]
  8   169 ms   162 ms   171 ms  dcr2-loopback.NewYork.cw.net [206.24.194.100]
  9   157 ms   162 ms   171 ms  agr3-so-6-0-0.NewYork.cw.net [206.24.207.202]
 10   163 ms   162 ms   162 ms  acr2-loopback.NewYork.cw.net [206.24.194.62]
 11   163 ms   171 ms   265 ms  206.24.193.158
 12   170 ms   171 ms   174 ms  pos6-1-0.core1.cra.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.19
1.105]
 13   168 ms   184 ms   174 ms  fa0-0.service2.cra.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.19
1.71]
 14   170 ms   181 ms   181 ms  eddie.ign.ie [159.134.244.155]

Trace complete.

BKtje

On Eircom:

Tracing route to eddie.ign.ie [159.134.244.155]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 30 ms 30 ms 40 ms as1.exs.dublin.eircom.net[159.134.238.26]
2 30 ms 30 ms 30 ms fe1-0.tr1.exs.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.238.65]
3 30 ms 30 ms 30 ms fe6-1-0.core1.exs.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.236.1]
4 30 ms 30 ms 30 ms atm4-1-0-134.core1.cra.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.192.9]
5 30 ms 30 ms 40 ms fa0-0.service2.cra.dublin.eircom.net[159.134.191.71]
6 30 ms 40 ms 40 ms eddie.ign.ie [159.134.244.155]

==============================================
On the Via-Net-Works.

Tracing route to eddie.ign.ie [159.134.244.155]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 30 ms 30 ms 20 ms lo.chef.via-net-works.ie[212.17.34.254]
2 20 ms 20 ms 30 ms rt001dub.ie.vianw.net [212.17.32.4]
3 40 ms 40 ms 40 ms rt001thl.uk.vianw.net[195.102.254.69]
4 40 ms 40 ms 40 ms r1thl.vianw.net [213.2.253.1]
5 40 ms 40 ms 40 ms fa5-0-0.core1.thn.london.eircom.net [195.66.224.79]
6 40 ms 40 ms 40 ms pos1-0-0.core1.cra.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.191.97]
7 40 ms 40 ms 40 ms fa0-0.service2.cra.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.191.71]
8 40 ms 50 ms 40 ms eddie.ign.ie [159.134.244.155]
Trace complete.

It being 3am in the morning might have something to do with it?
I am, as you might be able to tell, in Dublin.
Bit weird that i get such a better ping on 2 different isps?
Whats the most likely fault? dodgy routers?

i also get fine pings to UK. on par with UK ISDN users.

Molly

My ping with oceanfree and buy and sell was fine, just when i changed to eircom that it went haywire.

Gavin

Try dialing into a different POP.
When I was playing qw I used to dial into eircom dublin pop. Got better pings than the naas pop.

Gav

po0k

From HEAnet in NUIG:
======================================================================
syxpak@frink:~$ traceroute eddie.ign.ie
traceroute to eddie.ign.ie (159.134.244.155), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 rsm (140.203.7.2) 0.528 ms 0.476 ms 0.570 ms
2 193.1.218.162 (193.1.218.162) 0.815 ms 0.813 ms 0.907 ms
3 lucien-a1-9011.Galway.access.hea.net (193.1.194.133) 1.796 ms 3.484 ms 1.879 ms
4 Titan-f1-0.Galway.core.hea.net (193.1.199.10) 1.918 ms 1.899 ms 2.310 ms
5 Phobos-p0-0.CityWest.core.hea.net (193.1.195.113) 9.512 ms 8.331 ms 8.050 ms
6 Deimos-g2-1.CityWest.core.hea.net (193.1.195.130) 8.337 ms 8.832 ms 13.005 ms
7 Miranda-g1-1.dublin.core.hea.net (193.1.195.85) 10.193 ms 8.473 ms 8.506 ms
8 schiphol-fe0-0.hea.net (193.1.195.170) 9.116 ms 12.027 ms 8.896 ms
9 Markievicz-atm1-0-9-inex.hea.net (193.1.195.186) 16.226 ms 12.722 ms 14.105 ms
10 fa0-0.peering1.inex.dublin.eircom.net (193.1.208.196) 10.616 ms 11.404 ms 13.305 ms
11 159.134.191.125 (159.134.191.125) 17.670 ms 13.187 ms 17.093 ms
12 fa0-0.service2.cra.dublin.eircom.net (159.134.191.71) 14.868 ms 20.153 ms 14.405 ms
13 eddie.ign.ie (159.134.244.155) 15.504 ms 22.432 ms 15.702 ms
syxpak@frink:~$

Molly

How do i dial into a differnt POP ?

Gavin

a pop for dublin is 01 2171101

Try that and see how it goes.

Gav

Molly

Is that number ok to use with Eircom subscription account ?

Dr.Seagull

u can only use the 1891 number with a subscription account

Molly

Back to square one

Dr.Seagull

afaik theres nothing u can do about it im on oceanfree now and i get sub 100 pings but if i dial up eircom its well over 100
if u want to pay less for your net calls u would be better off canceling that sub account,switch to esat for your carrier and use oceanfree