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Author Topic: BT Internets - is it just me or...  (Read 16478 times)

boost

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Re: BT Internets - is it just me or...
« Reply #30 on: April 06, 2015, 12:59:34 PM »

Rightly or wongly, I've come to the conclusion that using the service username bypasses 21CN.

Doing this drastically improves my latency (30~ > 11~) and removes 3 hops from trace route.
Still using powerline adapters so deduct 2-3ms from everything.

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Tracing route to bbc.co.uk [212.58.246.103]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     3 ms     2 ms     2 ms  BH5A_Bridged [192.168.1.254]
  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  3     *        *       12 ms  31.55.187.197
  4    13 ms    13 ms    14 ms  31.55.187.216
  5    13 ms    12 ms    13 ms  195.99.127.172
  6    13 ms    13 ms    13 ms  195.99.127.52
  7    13 ms    13 ms    12 ms  peer2-xe8-1-1.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.2
55.103]
  8    13 ms    13 ms    13 ms  194.74.65.42
  9     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 10    14 ms    14 ms    14 ms  ae0.er01.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk [132.185.254.93]
 11    16 ms    15 ms    15 ms  132.185.255.165
 12    14 ms    14 ms    14 ms  fmt-vip132.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk [212.58.246.103]

Trace complete.

We have at least two users, on BT Internetz, showing identical behaviour. At least a 10ms increase upon entry to the host labelled '21CN'. For me, this was a tripling of latency. 11ms became 30ms to bbc.co.uk.

Newt, your 21CN node has 'mr' (Manchester?) and mine showed 'bm' (Birmingham?!) despite being spitting distance from Cardiff / Bristol.

I guess none of this matters if BT Retail have bought all their transit at two nodes at the other end of the country and have the ability to tunnel traffic through devices that have probably been in service since the dinosaurs roamed the earth?

Do we have any other BT users on 'ere? Care to share trace routes? :)
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Re: BT Internets - is it just me or...
« Reply #31 on: April 06, 2015, 02:05:37 PM »

Hi

Please see my results

I hope it helps

Many thanks

John

using HG username

Tracing route to bbc.co.uk [212.58.244.20]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     9 ms     6 ms     5 ms  BTHUB3 [192.168.1.254]
  2    22 ms    30 ms    20 ms  host81-139-192-1.in-addr.btopenworld.com [81.139.192.1]
  3    21 ms    23 ms    18 ms  213.120.182.141
  4    19 ms    21 ms    20 ms  213.120.161.82
  5    22 ms    39 ms    27 ms  31.55.164.59
  6    19 ms    19 ms    18 ms  31.55.164.107
  7    19 ms    18 ms    18 ms  acc1-10GigE-0-2-0-6.bm.21cn-ipp.bt.net [109.159.248.108]
  8    27 ms    26 ms    29 ms  core2-te0-3-0-15.ealing.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.248.158]
  9    25 ms    23 ms    22 ms  peer2-xe7-0-1.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.252.41]
 10    24 ms    26 ms    28 ms  194.74.65.42
 11     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 12     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 13    23 ms    22 ms    23 ms  ae0.er01.telhc.bbc.co.uk [132.185.254.109]
 14    23 ms    23 ms    26 ms  132.185.255.149
 15    24 ms    24 ms    24 ms  fmt-vip71.telhc.bbc.co.uk [212.58.244.20]

Trace complete.

Using green-light@ username

Tracing route to bbc.co.uk [212.58.244.20]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     2 ms     1 ms     1 ms  BTHUB3 [192.168.1.254]
  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  3     *       13 ms    13 ms  31.55.185.197
  4    13 ms    13 ms    16 ms  31.55.185.232
  5    13 ms    15 ms    13 ms  195.99.127.136
  6    19 ms    14 ms    15 ms  195.99.127.60
  7    16 ms    14 ms    14 ms  peer2-xe-4-3-0.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.252.53]
  8    13 ms    14 ms    13 ms  194.74.65.42
  9     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 10     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 11    15 ms    14 ms    14 ms  ae0.er01.telhc.bbc.co.uk [132.185.254.109]
 12    15 ms    14 ms    15 ms  132.185.255.149
 13    14 ms    14 ms    14 ms  fmt-vip71.telhc.bbc.co.uk [212.58.244.20]

Trace complete.

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Re: BT Internets - is it just me or...
« Reply #32 on: April 06, 2015, 02:27:29 PM »

Brilliant, thanks :)

You're going via 'bm' too it seems.

Where are you based, John?
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Re: BT Internets - is it just me or...
« Reply #33 on: April 06, 2015, 02:33:44 PM »

Hi boost

Leeds West Yorkshire (remember reading the posts about us in Yorkshire ! :) )

It's a hub3 running firmware from 2012.

The only issue I'm thinking about is connected with our static ip (5 ip) and if they will still work. I guess so, as routing still shows them.

Many thanks

John
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Re: BT Internets - is it just me or...
« Reply #34 on: April 07, 2015, 11:14:31 AM »

Hi

I can confirm that my 5 ip no longer work external and I have reverted back to HG login.

I can also confirm that our latency was half of the HG login, as detailed in Sam knows pic. Sorry, will post pic if needed, I'm not allowed too due to restriction on mobile, but Sam knows app shows latency at 10ms where before it was at 20ms.

Lastly, our gaming experience improved whilst using green-light username - or so it appeared to, but I think that's because I'm not a good at games.

Many thanks

John

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Re: BT Internets - is it just me or...
« Reply #35 on: April 07, 2015, 11:26:59 AM »

Much appreciated :)
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Re: BT Internets - is it just me or...
« Reply #36 on: April 26, 2015, 01:24:31 PM »

I tried the green login, still hit 21CN (note, trace is over wifi not ethernet)

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traceroute: Warning: bbc.co.uk has multiple addresses; using 212.58.244.18
traceroute to bbc.co.uk (212.58.244.18), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  bthub (192.168.1.254)  2.247 ms  2.279 ms  1.833 ms
 2  * * *
 3  * * *
 4  217.41.217.45 (217.41.217.45)  10.757 ms  12.997 ms *
 5  212.140.235.82 (212.140.235.82)  28.379 ms  11.447 ms  11.713 ms
 6  31.55.164.243 (31.55.164.243)  14.018 ms  13.033 ms  13.948 ms
 7  31.55.164.109 (31.55.164.109)  12.704 ms  40.527 ms  12.804 ms
 8  109.159.248.221 (109.159.248.221)  12.069 ms
    109.159.248.193 (109.159.248.193)  11.494 ms
    acc2-10gige-0-5-0-5.bm.21cn-ipp.bt.net (109.159.248.226)  13.640 ms
 9  core2-te0-2-5-0.ealing.ukcore.bt.net (109.159.248.130)  19.972 ms
    core2-te0-15-0-16.ealing.ukcore.bt.net (109.159.248.160)  19.881 ms
    109.159.248.132 (109.159.248.132)  24.888 ms
10  109.159.252.63 (109.159.252.63)  16.236 ms
    peer2-xe7-0-1.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net (109.159.252.41)  16.033 ms
    194.72.31.135 (194.72.31.135)  16.531 ms

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My Services

Internet: Connected
Broadband username: green-light@service.btclick.com
BT Wi-fi Status: Not active on your BT Home Hub

and on std username
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traceroute to bbc.co.uk (212.58.246.103), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  bthub (192.168.1.254)  4.219 ms  2.213 ms  1.966 ms
 2  * * *
 3  * * *
 4  217.41.217.45 (217.41.217.45)  10.245 ms  30.611 ms  7.662 ms
 5  212.140.235.82 (212.140.235.82)  11.814 ms  15.986 ms  26.675 ms
 6  31.55.164.243 (31.55.164.243)  11.252 ms  12.794 ms  11.466 ms
 7  31.55.164.109 (31.55.164.109)  12.171 ms  11.453 ms  10.829 ms
 8  109.159.248.191 (109.159.248.191)  11.208 ms
    109.159.248.189 (109.159.248.189)  11.691 ms
    109.159.248.187 (109.159.248.187)  11.255 ms
 9  core1-te0-15-0-0.ealing.ukcore.bt.net (109.159.248.12)  20.986 ms
    core2-te0-3-0-14.ealing.ukcore.bt.net (109.159.248.154)  21.788 ms  16.617 ms
10  109.159.252.61 (109.159.252.61)  16.794 ms
    194.72.31.143 (194.72.31.143)  15.721 ms
    peer2-xe4-1-0.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net (109.159.252.25)  20.686 ms
« Last Edit: April 26, 2015, 01:29:34 PM by plexy »
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Re: BT Internets - is it just me or...
« Reply #37 on: April 26, 2015, 02:32:25 PM »

I'm guessing that only works for BT Business? Perhaps there's a similar trick for home users...
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