ThePlanet Connection

[Art]

Wasn't quite sure if this belonged here or in Trouble Shooting, oh well.
I occasionally get lag during gameplay and I think it's due to what these traces show. It's always been like this, even on the old servers. These are relatively mild spikes and don't cause much problem ingame, but sometimes they're alot worse.
Here's a command box tracert (snapshots). Notice the 3rd one.


Below is an accumulation of 40 individual pings at 10 second intervals over about 6 1/2 minutes (doh).


Here's the 3d version of the same 6 1/2 minutes.


Notice in the 2d version the minumum ping column. I assume that's what my connection could be like under ideal conditions. Any network gurus out there decipher this for me?
Thanks

[console]

Art,

Actually... it looks OK to me, because the pings at the final destination (tastyspleen.net) were not affected.

Sometimes routers are slower at replying to a packet or bouncing a packet when TTL expires, than just forwarding the packet through.

In your case, the pings to the final destination all look good... which should be all that matters.

If you'd like to test that theory further, try from a DOS box:

ping -n 100 tastyspleen.net

Then check the statistics it prints out when done.  Going by the traceroutes you posted, your min/max/avg likely won't show those delays pertaining to the intermediate hops.


Regards,

quadz

[Art]

Quadz, if that's the case then all is good. I was just wondering because when everyone was having trouble a couple weeks ago, those max pings to the 3 hops before TS ranged from 200-400.

ping -n 500 tastyspleen.net
.....
Ping statistics for 74.54.186.226:
    Packets: Sent = 500, Received = 500, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 13ms, Maximum =  41ms, Average =  15ms

Except for the random 40, looks good.
Thanks!