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AORman
10/05/2007, 20:35
Hi James, I just did a tracert to www.yahoo.com and there seems to be a problem connecting to/from at hop 4 as shown:

Tracing route to www.yahoo-ht3.akadns.net [69.147.114.210]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms home.gateway [192.168.1.254]
2 22 ms 21 ms 20 ms ironwood.dsl.enta.net [87.127.229.6]
3 21 ms 20 ms 20 ms vlan4002.telehouse-east.dsl.enta.net [87.127.229
.1]
4 185 ms 212 ms 109 ms te5-2.telehouse-east.core.enta.net [62.249.192.1
21]
5 21 ms 24 ms 24 ms 197.g6-0.mpr1.lhr1.uk.above.net [213.161.78.217]

6 * * * Request timed out.
7 94 ms 93 ms 181 ms so-6-0-0.mpr2.iad1.us.above.net [64.125.28.130]

8 93 ms 93 ms 242 ms so-3-0-0.mpr1.iad2.us.above.net [64.125.29.134]

9 95 ms 100 ms 93 ms so-3-0-0.mpr1.iad10.us.above.net [64.125.30.117]

10 95 ms 94 ms 103 ms yahoo-above.iad10.us.above.net [64.125.13.98]
11 95 ms 104 ms 94 ms ge-2-1-0-p140.msr1.re1.yahoo.com [216.115.108.17
]
12 95 ms 95 ms 95 ms ge-1-30.bas-a2.re3.yahoo.com [66.196.112.37]
13 96 ms 95 ms 93 ms f1.www.vip.re3.yahoo.com [69.147.114.210]

Trace complete.

This could be a cause of *some* slow speeds and also not reaching 90%

Thanks
Paul_ADSL24
10/05/2007, 20:42
I get exactly the same results using 2 non ADSL24 lines so it appears that router is simply not responding to route traces. Sorry but that's not the cause.
Ircsum
10/05/2007, 20:42
A request timing out is not in itself significant. Cisco routers often have better things to do than respond to pings. ;)

I did a straight ping to yahoo.com & my numbers are similar to yours:

Pinging www.yahoo-ht3.akadns.net [69.147.114.210] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 69.147.114.210: bytes=32 time=85ms TTL=50
Reply from 69.147.114.210: bytes=32 time=85ms TTL=50
Reply from 69.147.114.210: bytes=32 time=86ms TTL=50
Reply from 69.147.114.210: bytes=32 time=86ms TTL=50

Ping statistics for 69.147.114.210:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 85ms, Maximum = 86ms, Average = 85ms

Ircsum.

edit: Wah! he did it again! :(
James
10/05/2007, 20:47
Yeah, it makes no difference if one router times out as long as it gets to the final hop :)

See how it goes...
AORman
10/05/2007, 21:06
Ok folks, I just thought I would mention it, as it was mentioned to me on another forum that that *may* be a cause
AORman
14/05/2007, 20:30
Actually, I was referring to hop 4 not hop 6 where it timed out.

4 185 ms 212 ms 109 ms te5-2.telehouse-east.core.enta.net [62.249.192.1

Wouldn't that make any difference even when the other hops where considerably less latencey times?
Thanks
Paul_ADSL24
14/05/2007, 20:34
That just means pings have a lower priority than other traffic on that server as the next hop averages 23ms and the final hop 93ms
James
14/05/2007, 20:35
Not really as long as the final hops reply in a timely manner :)
AORman
14/05/2007, 20:46
Ok James, thanks for clarification.

Just on a speed point I have been reading the FAQ on here and my router dooesn't show my connection speed. It shows most other other things like system up time , time and date, and IP but no connection speed. The BT speed test showed my max speed/profile as approx 8mb/sec so my maximum speed should in theory be about 7mb/sec, but it only aroun 6mb/sec. I was just trying to get up to 7mb/sec again where it was when I first joined adsl24.

Thanks
James
14/05/2007, 20:52
Which router is it? It will be there somewhere...
AORman
14/05/2007, 20:59
Its a Billion 7202 BiPac router
James
14/05/2007, 21:16
Go to the Configuration page, then WAN, then ADSL... What does it show?

It should show:

Upstream: Upstream rate
Downstream: Downstream rate

James
AORman
14/05/2007, 22:06
Ok, it says Upstream rate:256 and downstream rate:2048. Eh? somethings not right there because my last speed test says I have a download speed of 5mb/sec!!!
James
14/05/2007, 22:46
256 and 2048? Yeah, must be complete tosh that...
AORman
15/05/2007, 19:43
Now it says : Upstream 448, downstream 8128.
So as most internet gurus reckon on getting 90% of the ISP's download speed and according to the FAQ I should get 7mb/sec (at times)
James
15/05/2007, 22:13
Yes. As long as your BT profile is set accordingly...
AORman
16/05/2007, 19:38
Ok, just manged to do a speet test on BT site, Results as follows:

Results Image not loaded

Test1 comprises of Best Effort Test: -provides background information.
IP profile for your line is - 7150 kbps
DSL connection rate: 448 kbps(UP-STREAM) 8128 kbps(DOWN-STREAM)
Actual IP throughput achieved during the test was - 5332 kbps

If you wish to discuss these results please contact your ISP.

So my BT profile seems to be correct, but just can't get back to 7mb/sec I got when I first joined adsl24.
James
16/05/2007, 21:22
Speeds will always vary - 7.38pm will be busy as a lot of people go online after tea. At least the profile is good :D
AORman
16/05/2007, 21:52
Yea, thats certainly true. I do note that my speed does vary according to the time of day etc.
mmm, wonder why the moon does not affect it :)