Hi,

I've been with Fyx since launch and often play WoW. With very few exceptions, my latency to Bronzebeard (12.129.223.32) has consistently been 156 or 157 ms. However, for about the past week or so I haven't seen it that low; it's usually in the 180s and has often jumped up over 200.

I've pinged a few local servers and everything looks normal there, and my guild isn't reporting higher than usual pings (although most of them are in Canada).

While 180 certainly isn't bad, it just makes me wonder whether something is broken since it's consistently been in the 150s since Fyx began. Here's a traceroute:

traceroute to 12.129.223.32 (12.129.223.32), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 10.0.1.1 (10.0.1.1) 0.481 ms 0.290 ms 0.500 ms
2 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 2.236 ms 0.965 ms 0.810 ms
3 lo81.lns1.alb.fyx.co.nz (124.198.199.90) 17.315 ms 18.554 ms 21.604 ms
4 gi4-16.cr1.alb.maxnet.net.nz (123.100.64.140) 19.826 ms 17.023 ms 40.671 ms
5 gi0-3-0-19-2241.ncr1.alb.maxnet.net.nz (124.198.198.41) 19.971 ms 17.531 ms 19.913 ms
6 gi0-3-0-13-440.ncr2.alb.maxnet.net.nz (124.198.198.79) 20.353 ms 17.077 ms 19.908 ms
7 be20-443.ncr2.alb.maxnet.net.nz (124.198.198.47) 20.533 ms 20.271 ms 18.896 ms
8 123-100-64-115.maxnet.net.nz (123.100.64.115) 19.765 ms 17.500 ms 20.171 ms
9 203.167.252.81 (203.167.252.81) 20.517 ms 19.463 ms 19.925 ms
10 te7-3.ccr01.sjc05.atlas.cogentco.com (38.122.92.105) 340.955 ms 182.710 ms 204.086 ms
11 te0-3-0-2.ccr22.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.2.149) 156.838 ms
te0-2-0-1.mpd22.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.5.182) 156.250 ms
te0-2-0-1.ccr22.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.5.70) 150.179 ms
12 te7-8.ccr02.lax05.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.30.198) 283.670 ms
te9-3.ccr02.lax05.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.82.154) 262.070 ms
te3-2.ccr02.lax05.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.230) 304.242 ms
13 att.lax05.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.11.10) 181.651 ms
192.205.37.157 (192.205.37.157) 181.078 ms
att.lax05.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.11.10) 181.025 ms
14 cr2.la2ca.ip.att.net (12.122.84.218) 189.076 ms 187.600 ms
cr1.la2ca.ip.att.net (12.122.84.202) 185.227 ms
15 gar20.la2ca.ip.att.net (12.122.128.181) 186.788 ms
gar29.la2ca.ip.att.net (12.122.129.241) 180.675 ms
gar20.la2ca.ip.att.net (12.122.128.181) 180.508 ms
16 12-122-254-238.attens.net (12.122.254.238) 182.500 ms 185.896 ms
12-122-254-234.attens.net (12.122.254.234) 184.576 ms
17 mdf001c7613r0004-gig-10-1.lax1.attens.net (12.129.193.250) 183.176 ms 183.633 ms
mdf001c7613r0003-gig-12-1.lax1.attens.net (12.129.193.254) 185.535 ms

Does anything in particular look strange there?

Thanks :)

EDIT: I should also point out that I've tried it first thing in the morning (approx 7:30) and still get the higher-than-usual latency so it's unlikely to be peak time congestion at Maxnet's end.