[TiG] The Irish Guard - UK & Irish PC Gaming Clan & Gaming Community
Information and Help => Website and Server Support => Topic started by: [TiG]Devil_Monkey on November 10, 2004, 09:49:21 PM
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In order to chck your path to the tig server:
Start -> Run
Type in "cmd" without the quotes dummy.
In the DOS prompt type in:
"tracert 82.195.135.118" without quotes and watch the traffic bottlenecks reveal themselves.
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ISP is Chorus (internet ireland limited sometimes)
Cablenet provider, Motorola SB5100.
Bufalo wireless 54G router via wired connection.
C:\Documents and Settings\DevilMonkey.FIREBASE2>tracert 82.195.135.118
Tracing route to boomstick.gaming365.ie [82.195.135.118]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
Tracing route to boomstick.gaming365.ie [82.195.135.118]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms (none) [192.168.11.1]
2 35 ms 8 ms 7 ms 10.63.3.1
3 42 ms 16 ms 42 ms 10.60.1.54
4 24 ms 22 ms 44 ms iilgw-fe-0-1.internet-ireland.ie [217.78.0.1]
5 40 ms 16 ms 16 ms fe-0-0-3-2.dub20.ip.tiscali.net [213.200.67.85]
6 84 ms 83 ms 67 ms so-0-0-0.par31.ip.tiscali.net [213.200.82.89]
7 119 ms 168 ms 114 ms so-4-0.core2.Paris1.Level3.net [212.73.240.177]
8 99 ms 77 ms 79 ms ae-0-11.mp1.Paris1.Level3.net [212.73.240.1]
9 92 ms 82 ms 124 ms unknown.Level3.net [212.187.128.42]
10 133 ms 61 ms 74 ms ge-9-0.ipcolo1.London1.Level3.net [212.187.131.1
47]
11 179 ms 150 ms 102 ms 80.253.124.21
12 225 ms 138 ms 164 ms doc.hosting365.ie [82.195.133.197]
13 82 ms 76 ms 79 ms boomstick.gaming365.ie [82.195.135.118]
Trace complete.
Tracing route to boomstick.gaming365.ie [82.195.135.118]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms (none) [192.168.11.1]
2 6 ms 7 ms 7 ms 10.63.3.1
3 17 ms 16 ms 31 ms 10.60.1.54
4 28 ms 21 ms 23 ms iilgw-fe-0-1.internet-ireland.ie [217.78.0.1]
5 43 ms 35 ms 17 ms fe-0-0-3-2.dub20.ip.tiscali.net [213.200.67.85]
6 60 ms 124 ms 68 ms so-0-0-0.par31.ip.tiscali.net [213.200.82.89]
7 75 ms 142 ms 132 ms so-4-0.core2.Paris1.Level3.net [212.73.240.177]
8 75 ms 70 ms 90 ms ae-0-11.mp1.Paris1.Level3.net [212.73.240.1]
9 105 ms 63 ms 70 ms unknown.Level3.net [212.187.128.42]
10 71 ms 65 ms 65 ms ge-9-0.ipcolo1.London1.Level3.net [212.187.131.147]
11 78 ms 73 ms 108 ms 80.253.124.21
12 88 ms 82 ms 73 ms doc.hosting365.ie [82.195.128.10]
13 147 ms 150 ms 191 ms boomstick.gaming365.ie [82.195.135.118]
Trace complete.
So doc, what's the verdict?
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to france?
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this is mine.
Tracing route to boomstick.gaming365.ie [82.195.135.118]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 26 ms 25 ms 25 ms rasf1nrp5.kingston.broadband.bt.net [217.32.11.1
06]
2 26 ms 25 ms 27 ms 81.146.246.156
3 27 ms 25 ms 27 ms core2-pos13-2.kingston.ukcore.bt.net [62.6.40.21
3]
4 26 ms 27 ms 29 ms core2-pos13-1.ilford.ukcore.bt.net [195.99.120.1
94]
5 27 ms 27 ms 27 ms 194.74.65.198
6 29 ms 28 ms 27 ms 195.66.226.167
7 108 ms 126 ms 108 ms 84.203.130.13
8 109 ms 109 ms 108 ms h365.stisp.net [84.203.138.14]
9 40 ms 40 ms 40 ms doc.hosting365.ie [82.195.133.197]
10 40 ms 40 ms 40 ms boomstick.gaming365.ie [82.195.135.118]
Trace complete.
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Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Documents and Settings\Dermot>tracert 82.195.135.118
Tracing route to boomstick.gaming365.ie [82.195.135.118]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 3 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms 217.47.207.122
3 18 ms 17 ms 17 ms 217.47.207.86
4 16 ms 15 ms 16 ms core2-pos1-0.edinburgh.ukcore.bt.net [62.6.199.2
13]
5 25 ms 25 ms 24 ms core2-pos15-2.birmingham.ukcore.bt.net [194.74.1
6.237]
6 28 ms 27 ms 27 ms core2-pos15-1.reading.ukcore.bt.net [194.74.16.2
34]
7 27 ms 28 ms 27 ms core2-pos13-1.ealing.ukcore.bt.net [62.6.196.242
]
8 28 ms 29 ms 27 ms core2-pos4-0.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net [194.74.65.
121]
9 28 ms 31 ms 28 ms 195.66.226.167
10 110 ms 112 ms 110 ms 84.203.130.13
11 109 ms 116 ms 111 ms h365.stisp.net [84.203.138.14]
12 42 ms 42 ms * doc.hosting365.ie [82.195.133.197]
13 41 ms 42 ms 42 ms boomstick.gaming365.ie [82.195.135.118]
Trace complete.
Both mine and Karma's are getting stuck on the hop to 84.203.130.13 but it doesnt seem to affect gameplay too much.
Fairy
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not too many
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Documents and Settings\fomuiri>tracert 82.195.135.118
Tracing route to boomstick.gaming365.ie [82.195.135.118]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.254
2 20 ms 19 ms 19 ms 213-94-240-1.bas1.dbn.dublin.eircom.net [213.94.
240.1]
3 19 ms 19 ms 19 ms ge0-1.edge1.dbn.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.155.8
1]
4 22 ms 22 ms 19 ms atm4-0-39.peering1.inex.dublin.eircom.net [159.1
34.191.126]
5 22 ms 24 ms 22 ms panama-inex.hosting365.ie [193.1.208.234]
6 23 ms 24 ms 22 ms doc.hosting365.ie [82.195.128.10]
7 * * * Request timed out.
8
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Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
Tracing route to boomstick.gaming365.ie [82.195.135.118]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 30 ms 30 ms 31 ms bas503.cwt.esat.net [193.95.136.239]
2 32 ms 32 ms 31 ms vlan500.rt501.cwt.esat.net [193.95.136.124]
3 33 ms 32 ms 31 ms vlan53.rt002.cwt.esat-x.com [193.95.130.153]
4 31 ms 32 ms 33 ms ge0-0.core002.cwt.esat.net [193.95.129.18]
5 31 ms 32 ms 34 ms pos2-0.br001.inex.esat.net [193.95.131.6]
6 34 ms 34 ms 35 ms panama-inex.hosting365.ie [193.1.208.234]
7 33 ms 33 ms 34 ms doc.hosting365.ie [82.195.128.10]
8 33 ms 32 ms 30 ms boomstick.gaming365.ie [82.195.135.118]
Trace complete.
mine looks fine
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C:\Documents and Settings\Kermit (Muppets)>tracert 82.195.135.118
Tracing route to boomstick.gaming365.ie [82.195.135.118]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.34
2 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 192.168.1.1
3 25 ms 23 ms 22 ms bas503.cwt.esat.net [193.95.136.239]
4 24 ms 26 ms 23 ms vlan500.rt502.cwt.esat.net [193.95.136.125]
5 25 ms 25 ms 28 ms vlan54.rt002.cwt.esat-x.com [193.95.130.161]
6 24 ms 25 ms 26 ms ge0-0.core002.cwt.esat.net [193.95.129.18]
7 26 ms 25 ms 25 ms pos2-0.br001.inex.esat.net [193.95.131.6]
8 27 ms 26 ms 26 ms panama-inex.hosting365.ie [193.1.208.234]
9 27 ms 29 ms 27 ms doc.hosting365.ie [82.195.133.197]
10 26 ms 25 ms 26 ms boomstick.gaming365.ie [82.195.135.118]
Trace complete.
10 hops, first two being to the router then the modem. My router has 2 IPs >_<
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[Sings]What a difference a day makes...
C:\Documents and Settings\DevilMonkey.FIREBASE2>tracert 82.195.135.118
Tracing route to boomstick.gaming365.ie [82.195.135.118]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 10.63.3.1
2 834 ms 806 ms 844 ms 10.60.1.25
3 128 ms 104 ms 134 ms iilgw-fe-0-1.internet-ireland.ie [217.78.0.1]
4 269 ms 223 ms 289 ms fe-0-0-3-2.dub20.ip.tiscali.net [213.200.67.85]
5 676 ms 810 ms 629 ms so-0-0-0.par31.ip.tiscali.net [213.200.82.89]
6 100 ms 73 ms 126 ms so-4-0.core2.Paris1.Level3.net [212.73.240.177]
7 82 ms 90 ms 133 ms ae-0-15.mp1.Paris1.Level3.net [212.73.240.65]
8 823 ms 841 ms 719 ms unknown.Level3.net [212.187.128.42]
9 157 ms 109 ms 82 ms ge-10-0.ipcolo1.London1.Level3.net [212.187.131.7]
10 817 ms 855 ms 766 ms 80.253.124.21
11 152 ms 168 ms 204 ms doc.hosting365.ie [82.195.128.10]
12 123 ms 83 ms 116 ms boomstick.gaming365.ie [82.195.135.118]
Trace complete.
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what does this all mean? im lost :?
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what does this all mean? im lost :?
From the trace Devil did, all his information goes from Bulmers Land to Paris then back to Dublin to get to the TiG server. No reason for it, jsut some bad routing on behalf of the service provider. I remember with Irish Broadband, if you did a tracert to eircom.net it would go all the way through NewYork. :?
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Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Documents and Settings\Bernard>tracert 82.195.135.118
Tracing route to boomstick.gaming365.ie [82.195.135.118]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 2 ms 4 ms 1 ms SpeedTouch.lan [10.0.0.138]
2 80 ms 77 ms 89 ms rt-lohtg16.dial.aol.com [195.93.35.48]
3 60 ms 35 ms 45 ms accessl2-loh-G6-0-1.proxy.aol.com [195.93.35.252
]
4 75 ms 52 ms 62 ms pop2-loh-P2-0.atdn.net [66.185.143.77]
5 55 ms 74 ms 54 ms so-6-0-0.gar2.London1.Level3.net [66.185.143.90]
6 81 ms 72 ms 55 ms ge-11-0.ipcolo1.London1.Level3.net [212.187.131.
39]
7 87 ms 27 ms 98 ms 80.253.124.21
8 144 ms 157 ms 130 ms doc.hosting365.ie [82.195.133.197]
9 136 ms 148 ms 201 ms boomstick.gaming365.ie [82.195.135.118]
Trace complete.
C:\Documents and Settings\Bernard>
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Can I get a bit of help with this?
I appear to be dropping between 2% and 6% of my packets when I ping TiG and I think this is what is causing my sync errors with servers in Nam.
Ignoring my minimum ping of 100ms, this error stuff makes games absolutely and unquestionably unplayable.
I know it is my ISP and I've been talking to one of the biggest people within the Chorus NMC that deals with modems.
He knows nothing whatsoever about games and has come back to be with some questions.
Ar you telling me that the ping latency within the game is bad even though these pings are ok? I am not a gamer myself so I have no first hand experience with this but I can appreciate it is frustrating to have it happen, however the main thing is to find out why this is happening. If there is issues with the cable bandwidth then I can do something about it but if it is purely game server related then it will be a grey area.
Can you find out from the game hosts how they handle traffic that is too fast / too slow, how do they balance the experience of their users, what is their policy regarding broadband connections. If they come back to you will you foreword it to me and we can see if we can get a handle on it.
The info I gave him was tracert and extensive ping tests to TiG, 77CrEw and TS server.
All ping iffy and drop a certain % of packets.
I'm really looking at an answer to both educate him and move him past this question.
He's no tard but as he sees it, the pings are ok, loss is acceptable and d/l rates are fine so I'm the only one complaining and using my inside contacts from working in Chorus to reach him.