Increased Ping to WoW Servers

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gellza

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#311608 31-Jan-2024 18:19

Hi all,

I've noticed over the past week or so an increase in latency to the oceanic WoW servers (located in Sydney) when arriving in Aus on particular points - I would usually get 35ms~ from Wellington on my Spark Max Fibre connection, however its currently around 110ms when it goes through this path.

I've attached two different WINMTR results from today to try illustrate what I mean!

Current Issue when connecting to the 'et5-1-5.sebr3.global-gateway.net.nz' part:

No issue when connecting to this one:

Hoping that one of the awesome people from Spark will be able to take a look and provide some assistance - happy to provide any additional details I can.

Zeusssy

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#3189008 31-Jan-2024 21:57

No further details needed, its a known thing, some of our Aussie links are currently on a protected path going a longer route.
Test again tomorrow after 5am.

Cheers.

michaelmurfy

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#3189009 31-Jan-2024 22:34

Just another note with MTR tests is routers along the path are routing, they don't stop to respond to ping as a priority so don't worry too much if you see a spike in the response time of one of the hops.

In your case however it is clear, but the internet works in a pretty chaotic way so the path taken isn't necessary the best for either speed or latency - this appears it may be something along the lines of maintenance or a fibre break though.

Michael Murphy | https://murfy.nz
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