Thread: Daytime Latency/Speed Fluctuations

Latency/speed to international servers varying greatly for the last week or so.

Latencies to west coast US varying between 320 to 560 ms.

Routing also seems to be changing a lot - via chennai/singapore, then via west coast then via london, then via new york.

Peering with AT&T in the US seems to be always pretty awful.

Before anyone suggests ; this isn't a dns issues, nor a line issue [ changing dns servers is irrelevant for routing problems, and my snr/atten/local line quality are all fine ].

In the past the inflated latencies only seemed to happen during the 7:30am - 8am period; recently they keep happening at any time during the day.

Dallas - central US


San Francisco - west coast US



East coast - NJ


London


Australia


ping to cnet.com :

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Anyone know what's going on ?

Just to add; snr/atten values:

Local Tx Power:6.3 dB
Remote Tx Power:12.5 dB
Local Line Atten.: 9.0 dB
Remote Line Atten.:5.0 dB
Local SNR Margin: 31.5 dB
Remote SNR Margin:18.5 dB
DSL Standard:ADSL2+

This happens to me everyday at random times
No one cares because most of the users only want download speed.

tracert to cnet

Code:

(216.239.122.178), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  1.271 ms  1.746 ms  2.229 ms
 2  117.198.32.1 (117.198.32.1)  25.130 ms  27.512 ms  30.204 ms
 3  218.248.168.166 (218.248.168.166)  33.609 ms  35.570 ms  37.760 ms
 4  59.163.206.181.static.chennai.vsnl.net.in (59.163.206.181)  77.910 ms  81.344 ms  83.848 ms
 5  59.163.16.5.static.vsnl.net.in (59.163.16.5)  94.064 ms  96.727 ms  98.933 ms
 6  59.163.16.5.static.vsnl.net.in (59.163.16.5)  102.607 ms  70.331 ms  70.157 ms
 7  if-2-1.mcore5.NYY-NewYork.as6453.net (64.86.71.21)  269.665 ms  272.109 ms  274.251 ms
 8  Vlan1261.icore1.NYY-NewYork.as6453.net (64.86.71.6)  383.146 ms  383.414 ms *
 9  Vlan456.icore1.NTO-NewYork.as6453.net (209.58.26.41)  386.563 ms  387.972 ms *
10  192.205.35.13 (192.205.35.13)  394.076 ms  396.295 ms  398.895 ms
11  cr2.n54ny.ip.att.net (12.122.86.10)  440.404 ms  445.566 ms  445.827 ms
12  cr2.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.122.3.38)  410.017 ms  406.531 ms  402.397 ms
13  cr1.attga.ip.att.net (12.122.1.173)  405.284 ms  407.961 ms  410.538 ms
14  cr2.dlstx.ip.att.net (12.122.28.174)  397.025 ms  400.659 ms  402.620 ms
15  gar10.dlstx.ip.att.net (12.122.138.121)  404.728 ms  407.329 ms  410.044 ms
16  12.87.121.22 (12.87.121.22)  413.355 ms  415.766 ms  417.501 ms
17  c18-rb-gtm2-tron-xw-lb.cnet.com (216.239.122.178)  384.353 ms  384.072 ms  383.883 ms

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Originally Posted by button_masher

This happens to me everyday at random times
No one cares because most of the users only want download speed.

TATA looking glass.
lg.as6453.net/bin/lg.cgi

Well for me, when latency is unusually high torrent speeds/browsing speeds (especially foreign sites) become horribly slow.

But I agree no one seems to care. Or there's just no point in complaining

Originally Posted by rsen

Well for me, when latency is unusually high torrent speeds/browsing speeds (especially foreign sites) become horribly slow.

But I agree no one seems to care. Or there's just no point in complaining

I've thought you decided to dump BSNL but still you haven't left it? from your post i can see that you care so much about latency just as i do, and also i told you earlier that if you want best latency in India then opt for Reliance.

Reliance "doesn't have a port" in my area so I can't get it for a few months at the very least. Funny, coz their main call center says reliance is available in south kolkata; and so does their website. o well.

Right now I'm still using BSNL Home 1000, and Airtel 599. Both are mostly rubbish; with bsnl being slightly better.

Originally Posted by rsen

Reliance "doesn't have a port" in my area so I can't get it for a few months at the very least. Funny, coz their main call center says reliance is available in south kolkata; and so does their website. o well.

Right now I'm still using BSNL Home 1000, and Airtel 599. Both are mostly rubbish; with bsnl being slightly better.

Instead of wasting money on 2 connections simultaneously you can try Wimax from Reliance a fellow member of our forum from kolkata last month opted for Wimax and he is getting mind blowing speeds with decent ping times.

see this thread

http://www.indiabroadband.net/relian...thumbs-up.html (Reliance WiMax - Two Thumbs Up.)

Originally Posted by Rcom

Instead of wasting money on 2 connections simultaneously you can try Wimax from Reliance a fellow member of our forum from kolkata last month opted for Wimax and he is getting mind blowing speeds with decent ping times.

see this thread

http://www.indiabroadband.net/relian...thumbs-up.html (Reliance WiMax - Two Thumbs Up.)

nah wireless doesn't work well with gaming.
I'll switch to reliance wired; once they are able to give a connection in my area.
But until then I'm stuck.

Originally Posted by rsen

nah wireless doesn't work well with gaming.
I'll switch to reliance wired; once they are able to give a connection in my area.
But until then I'm stuck.

ok give me your gaming server IP i will ping it on Wimax

Originally Posted by Rcom

ok give me your gaming server IP i will ping it on Wimax

63.241.193.18

When things are ok on bsnl's end I get 290-320 ms.

With airtel I'm getting 350-400ms.

Originally Posted by rsen

63.241.193.18

When things are ok on bsnl's end I get 290-320 ms.

With airtel I'm getting 350-400ms.

BSNL company owner or who ever is taking care of it must die...

Those FOOLS in those chair wont have the Knowledge of what is what of the F***** thing he is running...

I am really FED UP with this BSNL ****... Getting 40ms in MID night at 2 and morning at 240ms, Should i woke up late night and play game like GHOST...

I dono when those fools realize this and fix this, ALL my PRAYERS are that they should die soon and some one should take control of it....

Before PING issue, now a days PING SPEED and NO TORRENT downloads, i dono what am paying for them monthly Rs1000...

None of the DNS or any **** wont work... Its their problem, its like they have launched a free bus ride for all and the BSNL server is loaded all the time...

Originally Posted by bonda

BSNL company owner or who ever is taking care of it must die...

Those FOOLS in those chair wont have the Knowledge of what is what of the F***** thing he is running...

I am really FED UP with this BSNL ****... Getting 40ms in MID night at 2 and morning at 240ms, Should i woke up late night and play game like GHOST...

I dono when those fools realize this and fix this, ALL my PRAYERS are that they should die soon and some one should take control of it....

Before PING issue, now a days PING SPEED and NO TORRENT downloads, i dono what am paying for them monthly Rs1000...

None of the DNS or any **** wont work... Its their problem, its like they have launched a free bus ride for all and the BSNL server is loaded all the time...

Just leave that pathetic BSNL,and switch to Reliance wired or wimax i can guarantee you that your pings and speeds will remain static 24X7!!

If you are playing online games then no matter to which server you connect, if you get ping <50 max <80 then you can play without lag. anything above 80 is a pure lag in game.

I play counter strike on steam and servers are located in India. Hence i get fantastic ping. For any Indian server i join , i get ping around 25-60ms which is good for online game play.

No matter which ISP you use from India, if server is located in US , UK , you are bound to get ping >80 or 100 ms which will introduce a lag for sure.

General thumb of rule is : Join server located in your country. Eg. Counter Strike game has N-number of servers hosted in India hence people enjoy playing it online.

I use to play max in 45ms ping in a cod4 server and 150ms is also playable but 250ms its like the server is pushing me back and front when i run and i laggs like ****...

There are max 10 Indian servers for cod4 in Indian and only Joister server ping is 45ms all the time...
Rest of the server are at 250ms and above...