I'd just about gotten my wife and Mum thinking that VFX was the way to go, unfortunetly a couple of bad calls last night almost ruined it...
In the evening there seems to be a lot of network congestion that plays havoc with the call quality
traceroute to 58.28.4.2 (58.28.4.2), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 0.659 ms 1.649 ms 1.188 ms
2 203-97-104-1.cable.telstraclear.net (203.97.104.1) 11.591 ms 12.525 ms 12.009 ms
3 218.101.61.50 (218.101.61.50) 17.062 ms 13.881 ms 15.738 ms
4 218.101.61.45 (218.101.61.45) 22.166 ms 21.856 ms 22.016 ms
5 g9-927.u12.brh.telstraclear.net (218.101.61.4) 22.421 ms 23.703 ms 22.919 ms
6 g1-926.u11.pnr.telstraclear.net (218.101.61.33) 40.919 ms 55.605 ms 85.722 ms
7 ggis-gige-v906.telstraclear.net (203.98.18.67) 23.324 ms 22.648 ms 23.834 ms
8 g0-1-0-4.akcr8.global-gateway.net.nz (210.55.202.49) 31.832 ms 26.822 ms 22.039 ms <--------------------- This one
9 v4.aksw7.global-gateway.net.nz (210.55.202.51) 27.052 ms 45.088 ms 32.395 ms <----------------- or this one
10 wxc-dom.aksw7.global-gateway.net.nz (203.96.116.54) 22.155 ms 23.599 ms 24.131 ms
11 ge-0-1-0-akl-ae01.wxnz.net (58.28.8.4) 22.390 ms 24.580 ms 23.599 ms
12 ip-58-28-160-2.wxnz.net (58.28.160.2) 24.583 ms 25.754 ms 23.049 ms
13 ns1.wxnz.net (58.28.4.2) 22.517 ms 24.913 ms 24.430 ms
One of these two using winmtr last night were giving ping times as bad as 1.2 seconds!! Funny how 202.51 one belongs to Telescum...
Are these two hops proving a problem for others or is it just me??