Any IPs to ping

Hi,

I am looking forward to moving (back*) Zen with our migration/activation date confirmed for a few weeks time.

The sales guy I spoke to did say our exchange does have Zen LLU available, so hopefully it is over that mechanism.

Does Zen have a looking glass or can anyone suggest any IPs that I could ping from the remote services we use?

The spikes in latency we are currently experiencing with our current provider (basically Talk Talk Business) is terrible. This only started over the last 4-6 weeks, so coincides with the mass national Working From Home. Prior to that my current provider was great/fine.


[*Zen was our first broadband provider 20 years ago when 512kbps was the jump up from dial-up]


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Not sure where it lives in there network but you can try "echo.zen.co.uk"

Perhaps?

https://dnschecker.org/dns/United-Kingdom/Zen-Internet

Or perhaps ping their speedtest page - http://speedtest.zen.co.uk

In reply to a post by RichTea23:

Not sure where it lives in there network but you can try "echo.zen.co.uk"

Thanks. Looks like that is one of their DNS servers.

Any idea on any of their DSL termination IPs? e.g. a gateway that my connection would see as its first hop. I assume if I could ping that, then that gives an idea of latency up to the final leg to me.

In reply to a post by camieabz:

Perhaps?

https://dnschecker.org/dns/United-Kingdom/Zen-Internet

Or perhaps ping their speedtest page - http://speedtest.zen.co.uk

Thanks

Any idea on any of their DSL termination IPs? e.g. a gateway that my connection would see as its first hop. I assume if I could ping that, then that gives an idea of latency up to the final leg to me.

Nope.

Hi, my current gateway is 62.3.80.21 (losubs.subs.bng2.th-lon.zen.net.uk), my static IP is from the 217.155.0.0/16 allocation.

> traceroute google.co.uk
traceroute to google.co.uk (216.58.211.163), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 router.lan (192.168.1.1) 0.443 ms 0.516 ms 0.391 ms
2 losubs.subs.bng2.th-lon.zen.net.uk (62.3.80.21) 7.948 ms 8.133 ms 8.428 ms
3 ae1-183.cr2.th-lon.zen.net.uk (62.3.86.82) 8.397 ms 8.618 ms 8.838 ms
4 72.14.223.28 (72.14.223.28) 9.582 ms 9.580 ms 9.000 ms
5 * * *
6 dub08s01-in-f3.1e100.net (216.58.211.163) 9.429 ms 108.170.246.161 (108.170.246.161) 9.103 ms 9.101 ms

Hi

I'm on Zen's LLU network, my traceroute to google is

Tracing route to google.co.uk [216.58.211.163]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.200.1
2 11 ms 13 ms 11 ms vt2.cor2.lond2.ptn.zen.net.uk [51.148.72.45]
3 50 ms 21 ms 15 ms ae-4.pe2.ixn-lon.zen.net.uk [51.148.73.110]
4 12 ms 16 ms 15 ms ae-1.pe2.thn-lon.zen.net.uk [51.148.73.96]
5 12 ms 15 ms 36 ms 51-148-73-107.dsl.zen.co.uk [51.148.73.107]
6 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms ae-8.agg1.lond1.ptn.zen.net.uk [51.148.73.14]
7 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms 72.14.217.190
8 15 ms 14 ms 13 ms 74.125.242.97
9 12 ms 12 ms 12 ms 172.253.68.211
10 12 ms 12 ms 12 ms dub08s01-in-f163.1e100.net [216.58.211.163]

51.148.72.45 appears to be the gateway you could be on.

Andrew

In reply to a post by andew:

Hi

I'm on Zen's LLU network, my traceroute to google is

Thanks

What's your ping to IP: 1.1.1.1 ?

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