[TelstraClear] australian servers?

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jdgamez

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#27631 2-Nov-2008 12:30

i am curently with xnet but we all know how crap they are at the moment.
so was told telstra are the best at the moment but then i have seen post about very high pings to australian server
and i will be playing on australian servers nearly all the time so i need very good ping to them
so is there a problem with the pings or was that just a 1 off
thank you

eXDee

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#175259 2-Nov-2008 14:56

Its often 1 off due to the international providers changing routes etc. Almost all servers are good bar a few that have had wierd routing issues, which telstraclear seems to have fixed. All the servers which are mentioned in that thread below now ping 50 for me which is nice and low.

Currently for gaming, it seems the only three ISP's which have been confirmed as problem free by gamers at the moment are Telstraclear, Telecom or Maxnet (source: gpforums). For telecom the pro plan is ideal since this plan allows interleaving off. Maxnet seems to be on the expensive side.

If you can give the name of the network (eg gamearena) or IP of the server i can test pings from telstraclear.

jdgamez

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#175266 2-Nov-2008 15:41

i play on cod 4 internode and gamearena servers
i would love it if u could test them
oh and with telstra canyou have interleaving turned off
thank you

eXDee

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#175274 2-Nov-2008 16:17

Okay, something is up with the routing to internode.

Tracing route to internode.on.net [203.16.214.17]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1    <1 ms     1 ms    <1 ms RTA1025W [192.168.1.1]
2    18 ms    19 ms    18 ms 218.101.61.22
3    15 ms    15 ms    15 ms 218.101.61.161
4    15 ms    15 ms    15 ms ge-0-2-0-1.xcore1.acld.telstraclear.net [203.98.50.251]
5   180 ms   179 ms   181 ms 203.21.25.233
6   179 ms   179 ms   179 ms so-3-0-0.XT1.AKL1.ALTER.NET [210.80.38.133]
7   159 ms   172 ms   165 ms so-2-0-0.BR1.AKL1.ALTER.NET [210.80.38.122]
8   190 ms   192 ms   177 ms atm3-1-0-2.sn1.optus.net.au [202.139.18.17]
9   302 ms   211 ms   214 ms 61.88.221.51
10   209 ms   208 ms   190 ms 61.88.221.51
11   140 ms   137 ms   160 ms internodesystemspl.optus.net.au [59.154.0.18]
12   165 ms   175 ms   121 ms po2.cor3.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.212.155]
13   171 ms   161 ms   180 ms internode.net [203.16.214.17]

Trace complete.

However gamearena is fine:

Tracing route to games102.gamearena.com.au [144.140.154.105]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1     1 ms     1 ms    <1 ms RTA1025W [192.168.1.1]
2    18 ms    19 ms    22 ms 218.101.61.22
3    14 ms    15 ms    15 ms 218.101.61.161
4    15 ms    15 ms    14 ms ge-0-2-0-1.xcore1.acld.telstraclear.net [203.98.
50.251]
5    17 ms    14 ms    14 ms 203.167.233.10
6    39 ms    39 ms    39 ms i-7-1.syd-core01.net.reach.com [202.84.142.137]

7    38 ms    39 ms    38 ms TenGigabitEthernet0-2-0-0.pad-gw1.Sydney.telstra
.net [203.50.13.21]
8    39 ms    40 ms    40 ms Bundle-Ether3.chw-core2.Sydney.telstra.net [203.
50.6.26]
9    54 ms    54 ms    53 ms Bundle-POS1.exi-core1.Melbourne.telstra.net [203
.50.6.14]
10    54 ms    53 ms    53 ms TenGigabitEthernet8-1.exi1.Melbourne.telstra.net
[203.50.80.11]
11    55 ms    54 ms    54 ms telstr477.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.4.138]
12    54 ms    53 ms    54 ms 144.140.178.5
13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
15    55 ms    54 ms    54 ms games102.gamearena.com.au [144.140.154.105]

Trace complete.

jdgamez

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#175276 2-Nov-2008 16:24

dam internode is like my fav

optical

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#175287 2-Nov-2008 18:03

jdgamez: dam internode is like my fav

I also play cod4 on their servers, atleast, used to.

Was fine till about 2 weeks ago i guess, ping went from 60ms to 300-400ms, and still is that way, aswell with other aussie servers (not all).

Quite annoying, hopefully they sort it out soon!

jdgamez

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#175306 2-Nov-2008 18:54

i just called telstra and the person there didnt know about any pin problems
but she wasnt the tech person anyway

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nigelramsay

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#175313 2-Nov-2008 20:13

Our server in Australia has had consistently long pings for about a year now.

traceroute to sharesight.com.au (122.201.73.187), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 121-73-40-1.cable.telstraclear.net (121.73.40.1) 24.303 ms 12.617 ms 13.247 ms
2 ae0-840.ie4.telstraclear.net (203.167.223.114) 13.754 ms 13.757 ms 10.065 ms
3 ge-1-2-0-843.ie1.telstraclear.net (218.101.61.105) 24.357 ms 34.395 ms 29.536 ms
4 ge-0-2-0-1.xcore1.acld.telstraclear.net (203.98.50.251) 22.510 ms 20.575 ms 20.520 ms
5 203.21.25.233 (203.21.25.233) 199.103 ms 187.607 ms 185.591 ms
6 so-3-0-0.XR2.AKL1.ALTER.NET (210.80.38.149) 184.461 ms 188.700 ms 185.535 ms
7 so-3-0-0.BR1.AKL1.ALTER.NET (210.80.38.138) 406.273 ms 423.354 ms 420.788 ms
8 atm3-1-0-2.sn1.optus.net.au (202.139.18.17) 426.669 ms 446.339 ms 448.163 ms
9 61.88.221.45 (61.88.221.45) 428.673 ms 395.389 ms 404.381 ms
10 harbourmsp1.52gdc76f02.optus.net.au (59.154.21.6) 438.574 ms 419.574 ms 395.664 ms
11 118.127.64.14 (118.127.64.14) 404.325 ms 398.458 ms 362.524 ms
12 122.201.73.187 (122.201.73.187) 361.741 ms !<10> 382.882 ms !<10> 389.453 ms !<10>

It's about 40mS from most other networks.

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Nigel Ramsay
Wellington, NZ

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Read my blog at https://nigel.ramsay.org.nz
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jdgamez

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#175315 2-Nov-2008 20:20

so what you saying is if i play on australian servers i shouldnt switch to telstra

optical

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#175325 2-Nov-2008 21:24

jdgamez: so what you saying is if i play on australian servers i shouldnt switch to telstra

At the moment i guess so.

fraseyboy

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#176130 5-Nov-2008 15:20

Naa almost all Australian servers are fine. None are giving me issues except those two.

Plus the Clearnetdeluxe CoD4 servers will give you under 20 ping (and sometimes under 10) so you don't need to play on Australian servers.