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wh0beme

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Topic # 87052 18-Jul-2011 18:25

Hey there would anyone please be able to give a rough estimation of average pings to USA (any location) with interleaving off vs on? I'm literally about 30m from an ADSL2+ enabled exchange.

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Reply # 494927 18-Jul-2011 18:36

That all depends on what server you want to ping e.g get everyone to ping www.washingtonpost.com/

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Reply # 494943 18-Jul-2011 19:00

cant ping that :P

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Reply # 494948 18-Jul-2011 19:04

l43a2: cant ping that :P

Then something is wrong with your ISP's DNS or your ISPs connectivity to the nearest Akamai node.

However that really is not a good test, need to test to something not via a CDN.

C:\Users\[removed]>ping www.washingtonpost.com

Pinging a1757.g.akamai.net [203.97.86.201] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 203.97.86.201: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=60
Reply from 203.97.86.201: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=60
Reply from 203.97.86.201: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=60
Reply from 203.97.86.201: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=60

Ping statistics for 203.97.86.201:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 1ms, Maximum = 1ms, Average = 1ms

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Reply # 494949 18-Jul-2011 19:06

ahh, i didnt put in the www. infront silly me..

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wh0beme

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Reply # 494951 18-Jul-2011 19:07

Alright uh how about to gameservers.com?
My current (non telecom) one looks like this:

C:\Users\Me>ping gameservers.com

Pinging gameservers.com [208.167.244.70] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 208.167.244.70: bytes=32 time=274ms TTL=49
Reply from 208.167.244.70: bytes=32 time=272ms TTL=49
Reply from 208.167.244.70: bytes=32 time=272ms TTL=49

Ping statistics for 208.167.244.70:
Packets: Sent = 3, Received = 3, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 272ms, Maximum = 274ms, Average = 272ms

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Reply # 494983 18-Jul-2011 20:38

PING gameservers.com (208.167.244.70) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from www.gameservers.com (208.167.244.70): icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=260 ms
64 bytes from www.gameservers.com (208.167.244.70): icmp_seq=2 ttl=49 time=262 ms
64 bytes from www.gameservers.com (208.167.244.70): icmp_seq=3 ttl=49 time=265 ms
64 bytes from www.gameservers.com (208.167.244.70): icmp_seq=4 ttl=49 time=278 ms
64 bytes from www.gameservers.com (208.167.244.70): icmp_seq=5 ttl=49 time=283 ms
64 bytes from www.gameservers.com (208.167.244.70): icmp_seq=6 ttl=49 time=251 ms

--- gameservers.com ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 30536ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 251.767/266.957/283.326/10.791 ms

wh0beme

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Reply # 494985 18-Jul-2011 20:39

kyhwana2: PING gameservers.com (208.167.244.70) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from www.gameservers.com (208.167.244.70): icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=260 ms
64 bytes from www.gameservers.com (208.167.244.70): icmp_seq=2 ttl=49 time=262 ms
64 bytes from www.gameservers.com (208.167.244.70): icmp_seq=3 ttl=49 time=265 ms
64 bytes from www.gameservers.com (208.167.244.70): icmp_seq=4 ttl=49 time=278 ms
64 bytes from www.gameservers.com (208.167.244.70): icmp_seq=5 ttl=49 time=283 ms
64 bytes from www.gameservers.com (208.167.244.70): icmp_seq=6 ttl=49 time=251 ms

--- gameservers.com ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 30536ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 251.767/266.957/283.326/10.791 ms

Is that interleaving on or off?

Cheers.

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Reply # 494988 18-Jul-2011 20:42

wh0beme:

Is that interleaving on or off?

Cheers.

Oh, that's with it off.

wh0beme

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Reply # 494989 18-Jul-2011 20:43

kyhwana2:
wh0beme:

Is that interleaving on or off?

Cheers.

Oh, that's with it off.

Thanks.

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Reply # 495008 18-Jul-2011 21:19

Pinging gameservers.com [208.167.244.70] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 208.167.244.70: bytes=32 time=218ms TTL=45
Reply from 208.167.244.70: bytes=32 time=225ms TTL=45
Reply from 208.167.244.70: bytes=32 time=214ms TTL=45
Reply from 208.167.244.70: bytes=32 time=216ms TTL=45

Interleaving off

~30-50ms difference is normally the difference.

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Reply # 495028 18-Jul-2011 21:43

Pinging gameservers.com [208.167.244.70] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 208.167.244.70: bytes=32 time=327ms TTL=45
Reply from 208.167.244.70: bytes=32 time=376ms TTL=45
Reply from 208.167.244.70: bytes=32 time=291ms TTL=45
Request timed out.
Reply from 208.167.244.70: bytes=32 time=280ms TTL=45
Reply from 208.167.244.70: bytes=32 time=277ms TTL=45
Reply from 208.167.244.70: bytes=32 time=302ms TTL=45
Reply from 208.167.244.70: bytes=32 time=314ms TTL=45

Interleaving off
Chch good conection.

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Reply # 495041 18-Jul-2011 22:12

on callplus ADSL connection in Mt Eden, Auckland, with interleaving as default (on):

Pinging gameservers.com [208.167.244.70] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 208.167.244.70: bytes=32 time=303ms TTL=51
Reply from 208.167.244.70: bytes=32 time=326ms TTL=51
Reply from 208.167.244.70: bytes=32 time=349ms TTL=51
Reply from 208.167.244.70: bytes=32 time=315ms TTL=51
Reply from 208.167.244.70: bytes=32 time=305ms TTL=51

same thing from a callplus fibre connection (a lot more consistent!):

Pinging gameservers.net [62.212.83.150] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 62.212.83.150: bytes=32 time=286ms TTL=54
Reply from 62.212.83.150: bytes=32 time=285ms TTL=54
Reply from 62.212.83.150: bytes=32 time=286ms TTL=54
Reply from 62.212.83.150: bytes=32 time=288ms TTL=54
Reply from 62.212.83.150: bytes=32 time=284ms TTL=54

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Reply # 495043 18-Jul-2011 22:16

this is the route the callplus traffic takes (route is a large factor when considering latency):

Tracing route to gameservers.net [62.212.83.150] over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 * * * Request timed out.
2 2 ms 1 ms <1 ms 202.180.x.x
3 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms x.pool-x.callplus.net.nz [202.180.x.x]
4 2 ms 2 ms 1 ms vlan7-cpcak3-s1.tranzpeer.net [202.180.x.x]
5 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms ge-1-0-0-401.gw1.akl2.asianetcom.net [203.192.13
0.193]
6 132 ms 131 ms 133 ms gi4-0-0-984.gw3.lax1.asianetcom.net [203.192.185
.49]
7 134 ms 132 ms 131 ms gi8-0-0.gw5.lax1.asianetcom.net [202.147.61.214]

8 200 ms 199 ms 199 ms mx.ash.us.leaseweb.net [206.223.115.240]
9 284 ms 285 ms * 85.17.100.184
10 324 ms 325 ms 329 ms 85.17.100.190
11 297 ms 325 ms 328 ms 62.212.83.237
12 292 ms 292 ms 293 ms www.gameservers.net [62.212.83.150]

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wh0beme

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Reply # 495057 18-Jul-2011 23:08

Here is mine (Xnet regular ADSL, interleaving off):

Tracing route to gameservers.com [208.167.244.70]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1    2    46 ms    46 ms    65 ms akl-ip21-xdsl-gw.wxnz.net [182.154.0.21]
3    43 ms    43 ms    44 ms as17435.cust.bdr01.akl02.akl.VOCUS.net.au [114.31.203.90]
4    43 ms    43 ms    43 ms ten-0-3-0-120.bdr01.akl02.akl.VOCUS.net.au [114.31.203.89]
5    44 ms    45 ms    45 ms ten-0-2-0-400.bdr01.akl01.akl.VOCUS.net.au [114.31.202.43]
6   195 ms   195 ms   197 ms ip-54.199.31.114.VOCUS.net.au [114.31.199.54]
7   202 ms   199 ms   200 ms 10gigabitethernet3-2.core1.sjc1.he.net [64.71.184.45]
8   212 ms   199 ms   196 ms 10gigabitethernet2-1.core1.sjc2.he.net [72.52.92.118]
9   275 ms   275 ms   273 ms 10gigabitethernet9-1.core1.nyc4.he.net [184.105.213.174]
10   270 ms   274 ms   274 ms 10gigabitethernet1-2.core1.nyc1.he.net [72.52.92.46]
11   271 ms   273 ms   274 ms nyiix.gi3-6.cr1.nyc1.choopa.net [198.32.160.157]
12   272 ms   272 ms   271 ms ve21-br2.ewr3.choopa.net [66.55.135.225]
13   271 ms   272 ms   271 ms tge1-2-cr2.ewr2.choopa.net [66.55.128.34]
14   272 ms   271 ms   273 ms www.gameservers.com [208.167.244.70]

Thanks to all who posted. My purpose was to try and get an estimation of ping improvement should I change if that was unclear.

I'm hoping that in the switch to Telecom I can knock off 50ms or so to the above (something similar to Ragnor).

Would have been interested to see the fibre tracert to the .com rather than .net (which you for some reason changed to Regs :P thanks still though). I'm pinging average of 358ms to the .net currently which is quite a bit slower.