I play a lot of Battlefield 4, I am unashamedly a gamer from head to toe,
Tonight I was getting a ping from my clan server of approximately 190 to 210 which is extremely odd but not unheard of when using Australian servers but typically only present when an Australian Clan/server owner uses an American host that re-routes everything back to Austrailia.
I normally get a ping of around 49-51 on servers in NSW & sometimes up to 80-100 in WA.
I ran a tracert tonight & discovered I was being routed through America & Germany.
Any gamer playing a data heavy game like BF4 knows that a lot can happen in the time it takes a signal to travel that far
Here it is for reference:
Tracing route to 103.231.88.225 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 4 ms 3 ms 3 ms 192.168.0.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 10 ms 26 ms 19 ms 218.101.61.101
4 30 ms 27 ms 27 ms ie2-g-0-0-0.telstraclear.net [203.98.50.2]
5 46 ms 27 ms 31 ms ge-0-2-0-1.xcore1.acld.telstraclear.net [203.98. 50.251]
6 34 ms 27 ms 33 ms 134.159.174.41
7 165 ms 183 ms 155 ms i-0-6-1-0.tlot-core01.bx.telstraglobal.net [202. 84.142.157]
8 153 ms 153 ms 155 ms i-0-4-0-6.tlot02.bi.telstraglobal.net [202.40.14 9.182]
9 154 ms 155 ms 155 ms gtt-peer.tlot02.pr.telstraglobal.net [134.159.61 .98]
10 150 ms 155 ms 167 ms giglinx-gw.ip4.gtt.net [199.229.229.18] _______________________ Germany Frankfurt Am Main Tinet Gmbh ???
11 186 ms 187 ms 187 ms 208.64.123.97 ___________________________United States Wilmington Black Lotus Communications
12 190 ms 199 ms 187 ms po112.2905.bdr-1-3-new.sau.net.au [221.121.137.1 5]
13 190 ms 187 ms 187 ms 221.121.141.7
14 190 ms 199 ms 199 ms 103.231.88.225 Trace complete.
Needless to say I'm pretty annoyed, I was incidentally doing a quality test from my IP address yesterday & noticed a lot of packet loss between here & the states, sometimes up to 100%.
I've noticed in an earlier post (that went way off topic) this has happened before & "johnr" was kind enough to poke the relevant people.
Would that be possible again, or could someone point me in the right direction as I don't really want to spend hours on the telephone to Vodafone & still have no answer or resolution.
Cheers.
