We did add another 4.5Gb/s of capacity to WBC yesterday - though the balance is usually pretty good these days.

tonight my connection has been good as gold

very happy despite yesterday's hiccup

doing it again tonight

Target Name: www.bbc.co.uk
IP: 212.58.246.92
Date/Time: 08/06/2013 23:00:50 to 08/06/2013 23:00:59

1 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms home.gateway.home.gateway [192.168.1.254]
2 117 ms 94 ms * * 222 ms 440 ms 183 ms N/A 78 ms N/A lo0-central10.ptn-ag01.plus.net [195.166.128.190]
3 21 ms * 21 ms 19 ms 19 ms 19 ms 20 ms N/A 20 ms 20 ms link11-central10.ptn-gw01.plus.net [84.93.248.148]
4 21 ms * 19 ms 20 ms 19 ms 20 ms 20 ms N/A 19 ms 20 ms xe-1-2-0.ptw-cr01.plus.net [212.159.1.28]
5 19 ms 19 ms 19 ms 20 ms 19 ms 19 ms 18 ms N/A 20 ms 20 ms kingston-gw.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.239.6]
6 * * * * * * * N/A N/A N/A [-]
7 20 ms 21 ms * 21 ms * 21 ms 21 ms 21 ms 21 ms 21 ms ae0.er01.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk [132.185.254.93]
8 21 ms 22 ms 21 ms 21 ms 25 ms 21 ms 24 ms 23 ms N/A 23 ms [132.185.255.164]
9 21 ms * 21 ms 20 ms * 19 ms 20 ms N/A 20 ms 20 ms bbc-vip013.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk [212.58.246.92]


having to resync to sort the problem out, i was using bbc iplayer as well
Ping statistics for www.bbc.co.uk
Packets: Sent = 9, Received = 7, Lost = 2 (22.2%)
Round Trip Times: Minimum = 19ms, Maximum = 21ms, Average = 20ms

Edited by Stanman_24 (Sat 08-Jun-13 23:06:14)

Hi Stan,

I also noticed something similar when doing the same route:

Tracing route to bbc.co.uk [212.58.253.67]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 10 ms 99 ms 99 ms 192.168.1.254
2 236 ms 168 ms 127 ms lo0-central10.ptn-ag01.plus.net [195.166.128.190
]
3 15 ms 15 ms 14 ms link10-central10.ptn-gw02.plus.net [84.93.248.14
6]
4 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms xe-1-2-0.ptw-cr02.plus.net [212.159.1.30]
5 15 ms 14 ms 14 ms ae2.ptw-cr01.plus.net [195.166.129.4]
6 15 ms 15 ms 14 ms kingston-gw.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.239.6]
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 16 ms 15 ms 15 ms ae0.er01.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk [132.185.254.93]
9 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms 132.185.255.156
10 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms www-vip.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk [212.58.253.67]

Trace complete.

Did a quick second test and slightly worse:

241 ms 273 ms 225 ms lo0-central10.ptn-ag01.plus.net [195.166.128.190]

Edited by deleted (Sun 09-Jun-13 02:56:08)

Don't worry about the response time of that gateway. The fact that the routers beyond it report in a fast time shows that the delay is non impacting.

Edited by deleted (Mon 10-Jun-13 09:09:41)

In reply to a post by Stanman_24:

doing it again tonight

having to resync to sort the problem out, i was using bbc iplayer as well
Ping statistics for www.bbc.co.uk
Packets: Sent = 9, Received = 7, Lost = 2 (22.2%)
Round Trip Times: Minimum = 19ms, Maximum = 21ms, Average = 20ms

I'd ignore the traceroute times unless there's a big jump in all times after a certain hop. Routers are often much better at routing packets through them than responding to traceroute requests.

I'd be much more worried by the 22.2% packet loss to the BBC. That's a real problem! TCP links should not really drop many packets at all. My 80/20 FTTC ink typically does not lose any packets in normal use.

In reply to a post by bsdnazz:

I'd be much more worried by the 22.2% packet loss to the BBC. That's a real problem! TCP links should not really drop many packets at all. My 80/20 FTTC ink typically does not lose any packets in normal use.

What's a TCP link please, Sir?

The bit that goes with IP - TCP/IP.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

The bit that goes with IP - TCP/IP.

I'm aware of what TCP is, I wanted to know what a TCP link was.

look at my bqm

pings are in the low 40's to bbc.co.uk

[censored] is going on !