From August 2nd to the 6th I could play almost 10 games a night without dropping once. And even in the weeks before that...with few to no drops.
The last 2 nights Aug 7-8th, I can't stay in a game for more than 3 minutes without getting dropped out of the game.
After checking port forwarding and pings ...I checked the tracert - there seems to be rather bad hop of/at number 3 - 932 ms 662 ms 359 ms 122-61-24-1.jetstream.xtra.co.nz [122.61.24.1]. Sometimes it doesn't even get a ping - 3 * * * Request timed.
out.
The next tracert a few minutes later could be as low as 128ms for hop3. Yet the next tracert I do...it will be 900ms or timeout all together.
Tracing route to google-public-dns-a.google.com [8.8.8.8]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 69 ms 99 ms 99 ms dsldevice.lan [192.168.1.254]
2 52 ms 52 ms 52 ms 122-61-24-4.jetstream.xtra.co.nz [122.61.24.4]
3 932 ms 662 ms 359 ms 122-61-24-1.jetstream.xtra.co.nz [122.61.24.1]
4 52 ms 54 ms 53 ms mdr-fid-int.akbr5.global-gateway.net.nz [202.37.
244.222]
5 51 ms 55 ms 52 ms ae4-10.akbr5.global-gateway.net.nz [202.37.244.2
21]
6 52 ms 51 ms 52 ms ae1-2.akbr4.global-gateway.net.nz [202.50.232.77
]
7 76 ms 76 ms 77 ms xe6-0-0.sgbr1.global-gateway.net.nz [202.50.232.
10]
8 76 ms 82 ms 77 ms xe2-0-0-2.sgbr2.global-gateway.net.nz [202.50.23
2.246]
9 76 ms 77 ms 76 ms 202.50.236.110
10 87 ms 77 ms 85 ms 66.249.95.224
11 77 ms 77 ms 77 ms 66.249.95.233
12 77 ms 77 ms 77 ms 72.14.237.21
13 77 ms 76 ms 75 ms google-public-dns-a.google.com [8.8.8.8]
Unfortunately I am not very well versed in this area of internet connection and perhaps there is nothing wrong or broken at hop 3.
If this does indeed turn out to be a bad or broken or router that's overloaded.
Hoping Telecom can sort this out.