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Broadband Related => Broadband Technology => Topic started by: squeak2199 on December 02, 2008, 09:34:27 AM
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Hey there. So I like to play COD alot on the xbox 360 but I find that I have too high of a ping. Here is a tracert test to google
Tracing route to www.google.com [216.239.59.99]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms voyager.home [192.168.1.1]
2 40 ms 39 ms 40 ms esr6.edinburgh5.broadband.bt.net [217.32.78.145]
3 40 ms 43 ms 40 ms 217.32.78.30
4 44 ms 45 ms 43 ms 217.32.78.174
5 42 ms 41 ms 43 ms 217.41.218.5
6 42 ms 43 ms 45 ms 217.41.174.65
7 44 ms 41 ms 43 ms 217.41.174.130
8 42 ms 43 ms 41 ms 217.41.174.58
9 43 ms 43 ms 45 ms 217.47.105.50
10 41 ms 45 ms 43 ms core1-pos12-0.edinburgh.ukcore.bt.net [194.72.17
.141]
11 49 ms 52 ms 49 ms core1-pos8-1.manchester.ukcore.bt.net [62.6.201.
21]
12 56 ms 53 ms 55 ms core3-pos0-1-5-0.ealing.ukcore.bt.net [62.6.204.
193]
13 56 ms 53 ms 55 ms core1-pos5-0-0.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net [194.74.6
5.122]
14 95 ms 55 ms 55 ms 195.99.125.78
15 52 ms 55 ms 55 ms 209.85.255.175
16 161 ms 69 ms 159 ms 209.85.251.190
17 138 ms 67 ms 65 ms 64.233.174.112
18 66 ms 81 ms 67 ms 216.239.49.114
19 68 ms 69 ms 71 ms 216.239.49.114
20 66 ms 67 ms 67 ms www.google.com [216.239.59.99]
Trace complete.
As you can see my ISP is BT. I have interleaving turned on which is obvisouly going to add a few more ms but mines eem pretty crap. Most people seem to get under 30ms whereas most of mine average about 50ms. Also at hops 16 & 17 I get over a hundred in some which is crap.
Now my exchange has no LLUs so If I were to change my ISP, even with using BT's equipment, will I see any difference in my ping?
Thanks for any reply
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The values shown in the intermediate hops (such as 16 and 17) have no relevance to the overall latency. Many servers prioritise actual throughput and give the ping response the lowest priority. Only the throughput matters from a performance point of view, so it's the end-to-end values which are significant (67 ms in your example).
Interleaving typically adds 20-30 ms to the latency, so your values are quite normal. The only way to get lower latency would be to get interleaving switched off, which might make the connection less stable. Your ISP should be able to arrange this, but you may find them unwilling.
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Ok thanks for a reply. I sorta understand a little more now
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It would also be better to tracert/ping to the actual gameserver and not to google. All that shows is that the transit to google from BT is quite busy these days. Quelle surprise eh? ;)