Routing through Hong Kong to Australian servers. Vodafone says it's "Politics"

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Ultimate Geek

#1244705 23-Feb-2015 12:13

To be fair, for accurate diagnostics you need to know where it works and where it doesn't. So knowing where it does work is not a bad thing. The bad thing is the speed that people get their panties in a bunch. If instead of getting bunched up they'd said "oh guess it's just a problem on the TCL side then", rather than "[s]he's saying that I'm wrong" we wouldn't have had silly arguments in this thread.

Its highly likely his connection has the same problem everyone else is experiencing, but he simply hasn't encountered it. Weighing into the conversation with "there is nothing wrong with my connection" is incredibly unhelpful, unless he is prepared to actually run tests relevant to the issue being discussed he actually has no idea if there is anything wrong with his connection or not.

NZCrusader

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#1244706 23-Feb-2015 12:14

johnr: Great news it's been confirmed this traffic should not be taking the long way round and now under further investigation why,

Will keep thread updated as I am updated

Thanks

^ This guy is a hero (especially to us gamers).

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Thanks John.

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#1244709 23-Feb-2015 12:17

its good to see something has come of this thread

johnr

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#1244718 23-Feb-2015 12:33

Update: routing changes have now been made can you please test and post an update

Thanks :)

Turing

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#1244757 23-Feb-2015 13:13

johnr: Update: routing changes have now been made can you please test and post an update

Thanks :)

Oh my god.

Got my flatmate at home to do this.

Tracing route to sau-17a50-or.servercontrol.com.au [27.50.72.181]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms NAS [192.168.20.1]
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 10 ms 18 ms 10 ms lo0.internet.ivpn.pe15.telstraclear.net [218.101.61.30]
4 16 ms 17 ms 17 ms ie2-g-0-0-0.telstraclear.net [203.98.50.2]
5 16 ms 16 ms 18 ms ge-0-2-0-1.xcore1.acld.telstraclear.net [203.98.50.251]
6 17 ms 17 ms 17 ms gi2-20.akl-grafton-bdr1.ihug.net [203.109.130.41]
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 56 ms 66 ms 50 ms 45671.syd.equinix.com [202.167.228.22]
9 69 ms 73 ms 42 ms sau-17a50-or.servercontrol.com.au [27.50.72.181]

Thank you so much John. <3

Does this mean that the other Vodafone guy lied?

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#1244759 23-Feb-2015 13:15

johnr: Update: routing changes have now been made can you please test and post an update

Thanks :)

Excellent outcome John :-)

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#1244762 23-Feb-2015 13:21

@Turing no one lied more around understanding, That latency looks much better :)

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#1244773 23-Feb-2015 13:36

How many black helicopters did you have to send?

PS: Thanks Johnr

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#1244775 23-Feb-2015 13:38

johnr: Update: routing changes have now been made can you please test and post an update

Thanks :)

This is why Geekzone loves JohnR

kiwitrc

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#1244781 23-Feb-2015 13:42

I wonder if Vodafone have any idea how much money this (OP and JohnR) has saved them in potential lost customers, and support enquiries. I hope someone gets a beer out of it.

Turing

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#1244804 23-Feb-2015 13:55

kiwitrc: I wonder if Vodafone have any idea how much money this (OP and JohnR) has saved them in potential lost customers, and support enquiries. I hope someone gets a beer out of it.

It does beg the question, how many people so far have submitted tickets about AU servers and been told the same thing as I was? I'm just incredibly thankful that John took me seriously enough to check.

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#1244808 23-Feb-2015 13:57

freitasm: I don't mind saying where it works - but the thread went on an off topic rant from all sides about the network quality as a service indicator instead, which doesn't help keeping things in focus.

Welcome to Internet forums :-) But seriously in terms of balance conversational balance here in GZ, the perverse side effective of trying to create a friendly atmosphere through language filters and moderation is a vein of nannyism that leads to pointless bickering. To me it seems to have become worse since Christmas. I think the fix is to try and encourage people to have a sense of humour.

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#1244817 23-Feb-2015 14:05

nedkelly:
johnr: Update: routing changes have now been made can you please test and post an update

Thanks :)

This is why Geekzone loves JohnR

I personally did not do any work on this, I just poked the correct with sticks (annoying emails)

kiwitrc

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#1244819 23-Feb-2015 14:06

Glassboy: I think the fix is to try and encourage people to have a sense of humour.

It would be great if everyone had a sense of humour, but there are some who, well, think of propelling do do's up a gradient with a sharpened power pole. Even the most enlightened eventually snap :)

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#1244833 23-Feb-2015 14:17

kiwitrc:
Glassboy: I think the fix is to try and encourage people to have a sense of humour.

It would be great if everyone had a sense of humour, but there are some who, well, think of propelling do do's up a gradient with a sharpened power pole. Even the most enlightened eventually snap :)

I initially read that as Dodos and must say it sounds like a better movie than Jurassic Park :-)

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