Do you mean the "Request timed out"? That's when that particular router is set to not respond to pings.

In reply to a post by professor973:

10 ms is good, but not seen an ISP with hops that are not unreachable. The cause and effect of that is what we should be getting to the bottom of.

Shouldn't have any effect. The unreachable ones aren't responding to the tracert requests directed to them, and some of the slower ones respond slowly to such requests. However, they should forward tracert requests targetted at further down the chain as fast and reliably as they forward anything else. If they are slow at forwarding that will affect all traffic, and show up correctly as longer latency times to the points further down the chain.


On another point, I've just realized that when the phone price increase comes through I have the chance to break my Plusnet broadband contract as well as the phone one, should I choose to do so. That means that my decision time will be closer than I had expected (soonish rather than early next year).

Edited by StephenTodd (Sat 18-Jul-15 12:29:03)

That's good - Minimal packet loss.

Only getting that due to being connection to Plusnet's Plagued City Lifeline Gateways..

Normally I can shave a millisecond and lose the packet loss by getting on to telehouse norths gateways but keep getting booted of them so not bothered trying anymore.

yep

the 2nd hop is the dslam in exchange, looks like now sky stop that responding.

Edited by Chrysalis (Sat 18-Jul-15 13:34:42)

normally a lot of hops are hidden under one hope too aren't they?

I've just noticed that Pulse8 like to do FTTC migrations via ADSL.
That seems to leave an extra uncertainty which should not be an issue, but ...???
For example, if your cabinet is full might you lose the FTTC connection during the process?

My migration from BT to Plusnet didn't even appear to involve a modem-cabinet resync.
Not sure why the Pulse8 one would be more complicated.
Is that to do with TalkTalk LLU? If so, does it mean migrating away again could have similar complications?

https://pulse8broadband.co.uk/faq
http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/otherisp/4417498-pu...

Edited by StephenTodd (Sat 18-Jul-15 16:30:43)

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

It's always been separate. But despite my lifelong belief in BT being the best place to have line rental I just discovered that in effect I am paying over £10 per month purely for a comfort feeling about what would happen if I had a line problem .[/quote

Ditto - I also used to keep the rental seperate from the adsl but did the same last Autumn, though moved to Plusnet for both rental, calls (E&W) and adsl.

This year, I would have just renewed the LRS and upgraded to the 40/20 package. However, the recent product/price changes mean I will need to look at the whole thing again in a few months.

Ironically really, as I only recently requested the E&W package change to an Anytime one.

Not sure I trust the Pluse8 savings calculator though - I think where they ask for 'line rental cost' you need to put in the entire cost of your monthly bill..

Regards
Sunil

going to talktalk will cause a loss of sync but can still be migrated same day if pulse8 did it correctly, I did plusnet to sky and was a same day migration.

Edited by Chrysalis (Sat 18-Jul-15 16:39:06)

I didn't bother with the savings calculator. It wouldn't be relevant to my usage. If you needed Anytime then it's a different ball-game altogether .