high pings

Hi All,

Just recently i have noticed while gaming that my Pings are very high, usually they are around 35ms at peak times but they have jumped to 150ms +
is this due to congestion on the exchange? or is there something i can do to resolve this?

ISP Orange ADSL2...



ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 17441 kbps 1169 kbps
Line Attenuation 24.0 db 14.1 db
Noise Margin 3.6 db 6.1 db



Thanks

Your connection MTU do you have it set MTU: 1500

Ping test your connection with ping plotter from bbc.co.uk it might show the problem.
For use of Ping Plotter no need to register just click [Register] then click [Do it later] you copy result as text file.

My connection test result� Average = 10ms
Target Name: bbc.co.uk
IP: 212.58.241.131
Date/Time: 02/01/2013 22:24:01

1 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms [192.168.1.1] Default IP address displayed
2 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms [213.1.112.126]
3 48 ms 6 ms 8 ms 6 ms [213.1.115.238]
4 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms 9 ms [213.1.78.74]
5 12 ms 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms [213.1.67.252]
6 * * * * [-]
7 10 ms 19 ms 10 ms 11 ms [87.237.20.244]
8 11 ms 10 ms 11 ms 10 ms bbc-linx.pr01.thdow.bbc.co.uk [195.66.224.103]
9 * * * * [-]
10 N/A 11 ms 10 ms 11 ms ae1.er01.rbsov.bbc.co.uk [132.185.254.46]
11 13 ms 14 ms 11 ms 14 ms [132.185.255.60]
12 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms 10 ms [212.58.241.131]

Ping statistics for bbc.co.uk
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0.0%)
Round Trip Times: Minimum = 10ms, Maximum = 11ms, Average = 10ms

http://www.pingplotter.com/

Target Name: bbc.co.uk
IP:
Date/Time: 03/01/2013 07:57:18 to 03/01/2013 07:59:33

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms [192.168.0.1]
2 16 ms 15 ms 16 ms 16 ms 15 ms 15 ms 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms [213.1.112.221]
3 17 ms 17 ms 16 ms 17 ms 17 ms 17 ms 17 ms 17 ms 18 ms 18 ms [213.1.117.110]
4 19 ms 19 ms 18 ms 19 ms 18 ms 18 ms 18 ms 19 ms 18 ms 18 ms [213.1.67.234]
5 19 ms 18 ms 18 ms 18 ms 19 ms 18 ms 18 ms 19 ms 19 ms 18 ms [213.1.79.34]
6 18 ms 24 ms 39 ms 18 ms 18 ms 19 ms 18 ms 18 ms 19 ms 23 ms [87.237.20.240]
7 19 ms 19 ms 20 ms 19 ms 18 ms 18 ms 18 ms 19 ms 19 ms 18 ms bbc-linx.pr01.thdow.bbc.co.uk [195.66.224.103]
8 * * * * * * * * * * [-]
9 19 ms 19 ms 19 ms 19 ms 19 ms 19 ms 18 ms 19 ms 20 ms 19 ms ae1.er01.rbsov.bbc.co.uk [132.185.254.46]
10 19 ms 22 ms 19 ms 21 ms 20 ms 20 ms 19 ms 20 ms 20 ms 21 ms [132.185.255.60]
11 19 ms 19 ms 19 ms 19 ms 19 ms 18 ms 19 ms 19 ms 19 ms 19 ms [212.58.241.131]

Ping statistics for bbc.co.uk
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0.0%)
Round Trip Times: Minimum = 18ms, Maximum = 19ms, Average = 18ms

early this morning, will do another later this evening for comparison.

Your pings to BBC seem to indicate you are on Interleaved mode. Can you tell from your router whether you are on Interleaved or Fast Path? Fast Path is better for gaming, but Orange can't switch you between them as it's all done auto by DLM.

Your game servers must be far away anyway with such high latency.

my router is a netgear dg834gt, i dont see anyway to change it on the router.

the game servers are usually in europe, but the so called uk based servers are usually a higher ping for some reason....

if there is a way to change to fast path on the router could you please advise, but its not a massive issue as i am hoping to change to a fibre connection soon.

thanks for your help so far and i will post more stats later.

Try running this: http://192.168.0.1/setup.cgi?PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bi... and copy results here.

Router cannot change to Fast Path; only DLM can do that. But let's see what you actually have.

forgot to do the ping last night but here are the results from the link Xrayspex requested

adslctl: ADSL driver and PHY status
Status: ShowtimeRetrain Reason: 8000
Channel: FAST, Upstream rate = 1169 Kbps, Downstream rate = 17441 Kbps
Link Power State: L0
Mode: ADSL2+
Channel: Fast
Trellis: U:ON /D:ON
Line Status: No Defect
Training Status: Showtime
Down Up
SNR (dB): 3.7 6.2
Attn(dB): 24.0 14.1
Pwr(dBm): 0.0 12.6
Max(Kbps): 20864 1168
Rate (Kbps): 17441 1169
G.dmt framing
K: 155(0) 168
R: 14 0
S: 1 1
D: 96 1
ADSL2 framing
MSGc: 51 10
B: 154 167
M: 1 1
T: 4 1
R: 14 0
S: 0.2839 4.5714
L: 4762 294
D: 96 1
Counters
SF: 31183512 28035859
SFErr(CRCErr): 3182 0
RS: 2814873458 0
RSCorr: 55756677 0
RSUnCorr: 198376 0

HEC: 2905 0
OCD: 359 0
LCD: 2 0
Total Cells: 3579244631 2099319
Data Cells: 320601873 323115
Drop Cells: 688
Bit Errors: 0 0

ES: 1191 0
SES: 22 0
UAS: 34 0
AS(Uptime): 504646

INP: 1.12 0.00
PER: 16.18 18.28
delay: 6.81 1.14
OR: 28.17 7.00

Bitswap: 20482 1218
Total uptime: 504646

Total time = 1 days 20 hours 11 min 46 sec
SF = 31183512
CRC = 3182
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 1191
Latest 1 day time = 20 hours 11 min 46 sec
SF = 4492736
CRC = 345
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 129
Latest 15 minutes time = 11 min 46 sec
SF = 43633
CRC = 2
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 1
Previous 15 minutes time = 15 min 0 sec
SF = 55594
CRC = 14
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 5
Previous 1 day time = 24 hours 0 sec
SF = 5338924
CRC = 599
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 200
15 minutes interval [-30 min to -15 min] time = 15 min 0 sec
SF = 55657
CRC = 0
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 0
15 minutes interval [-45 min to -30 min] time = 15 min 0 sec
SF = 55594
CRC = 2
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 1
15 minutes interval [-60 min to -45 min] time = 15 min 0 sec
SF = 55595
CRC = 14
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 8
Showtime Drop Reason: 8000
Last Retrain Reason: 8000

Well done!

In reply to a post by vf12vf:

D: 96 1

indicates you are on Interleaved, on Downstream. Ignore

Channel: FAST

It refers only to the Upstream.

EDIT: What is router firmware version? Think it is on 1st GUI page. Seems to give more informative results than mine.

Edited by XRaySpeX (Fri 04-Jan-13 17:30:23)

Firmware : V1.03.22 - DGTeam Rev. 1007

keep on forgetting to do the ping test in evening....out tonight but will try to remember tomorrow evening.

Thanks! That explains it. I've just got plain Netgear.