Laggy Browsing (plc-ag02)?

[#1]

Anyone else getting this? Pages are taking ages to load (synch speed 6118). 'What Gateway' can't even tell me which gateway I'm on.
Tracert also shows some slow and intermittent routing:
C:\Documents and Settings\User>tracert www.craigmurray.co.uk
Tracing route to craigmurray.co.uk [174.37.184.32]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
  1    <1 ms    3 ms    3 ms  192.168.0.1
  2    37 ms    36 ms    *    lo0-central4.pcl-ag02.plus.net [195.166.130.88]
  3    38 ms    35 ms    38 ms  84.93.255.89
  4    35 ms    35 ms    35 ms  po4.pcl-gw02.plus.net [212.159.1.129]
  5    38 ms    34 ms    35 ms  195.50.122.129
  6    45 ms    39 ms    39 ms  ae-52-52.csw2.London1.Level3.net [4.69.139.120]
  7    35 ms    35 ms    37 ms  ae-58-223.ebr2.London1.Level3.net [4.69.153.137]
  8  100 ms  102 ms  103 ms  ae-42-42.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.137.70]
  9  126 ms  117 ms  141 ms  ae-91-91.csw4.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.134.78]
10  104 ms  104 ms  104 ms  ae-4-90.edge3.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.155.209]
11  108 ms  103 ms  105 ms  te2-5.bbr01.tl01.nyc01.networklayer.com [4.26.34
.22]
12  124 ms  124 ms  125 ms  ae1.bbr01.eq01.chi01.networklayer.com [173.192.1
8.132]
13  127 ms  124 ms  125 ms  ae7.bbr02.eq01.chi01.networklayer.com [173.192.1
8.171]
14    *        *      167 ms  ae1.bbr02.cf01.den01.networklayer.com [173.192.1
8.131]
15  152 ms  153 ms  149 ms  ae7.bbr01.cf01.den01.networklayer.com [173.192.1
8.168]
16  177 ms  176 ms  178 ms  ae0.bbr01.wb01.sea02.networklayer.com [173.192.1
8.144]
17  174 ms  173 ms  174 ms  ae0.dar02.sr01.sea01.networklayer.com [173.192.1
8.159]
18  174 ms  176 ms  175 ms  po2.fcr02.sr03.sea01.networklayer.com [67.228.11
8.227]
19  179 ms  176 ms  177 ms  174.37.184.32-static.reverse.softlayer.com [174.
37.184.32]
Trace complete.
Will try reconnecting to see if that does anything.

[#2]

Now on pcl-ag07 and a fair bit better (although my synch speed has now dropped to 4798).

[#3]

I was on pcl-ag05 yesterday when browsing slowed dramatically, but doing a gateway hop to an unknown gateway returned browsing to normal speeds.

[#4]

If anyone using the gateway checker gets the 'could not identify your gateway' message please could you post the traceroute result from the giganews news-europe server on this page. It should look something like
news-europe.giganews.com
1 vl201.gw2.ams.giganews.com (216.196.110.2) 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms
2 216-196-108-178.ams.giganews.com (216.196.108.178) 0 ms
vl307.gw1.ams.giganews.com (216.196.108.242) 0 ms
vl305.gw1.ams.giganews.com (216.196.108.226) 0 ms
3 linx-gw1.plus.net (195.66.224.164) 7 ms 8 ms 8 ms
4 po5.pcl-gw02.plus.net (212.159.1.132) 7 ms 7 ms 9 ms
MPLS Label=1099 CoS=0 TTL=0 S=1
5 te2-1-620.pcl-gw01.plus.net (84.93.254.154) 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms
6 gi11-1-1-621.pcl-ag06.plus.net (84.93.254.136) 9 ms 8 ms 8 ms
7 * * *
8 * * *
9 * * *
Max number of unresponsive hops reached (firewall or filter?)
Lack of appropriate reverse-DNS entries for newly introduced gateway paths is the usual reason for that message. I expect Plusnet will add these in the New Year.
David

[#5]

@'spraxyt' - Is this what you wanted ?

news-europe.giganews.com
 1  vl201.gw2.ams.giganews.com (216.196.110.2)  0 ms  0 ms  0 ms
 2  vl306.gw1.ams.giganews.com (216.196.108.234)  0 ms 
    vl305.gw1.ams.giganews.com (216.196.108.226)  0 ms 
    vl307.gw1.ams.giganews.com (216.196.108.242)  0 ms
 3  linx-gw1.plus.net (195.66.224.164)  7 ms  7 ms  7 ms
 4  po4.thn-gw1.plus.net (212.159.1.134)  7 ms  15 ms  7 ms
     MPLS Label=127 CoS=0 TTL=0 S=1
 5  po6.ptn-gw02.plus.net (212.159.1.137)  7 ms  7 ms  7 ms
     MPLS Label=128 CoS=0 TTL=0 S=1
 6  84.93.253.82 (84.93.253.82)  22 ms  16 ms  10 ms
 7  * * *
 8  * * *
 9  * * *
Max number of unresponsive hops reached (firewall or filter?)

Which doing an MTR the other way gives -

  2. lo0-central5.ptn-ag04.plus.n  0.0%    10   21.9  23.2  20.9  32.7   3.5
  3. 84.93.253.83                  0.0%    10   59.4  24.8  20.5  59.4  12.2
  4. po6.thn-gw1.plus.net          0.0%    10  144.2  41.1  20.1 144.2  39.9

[#6]

Yes, thanks.
I've added that to the list. The inbound path follows a different route from outgoing but it will still be ptn-ag04 (which is in Telehouse North).

[#7]

And another one -

news-europe.giganews.com
1 vl201.gw2.ams.giganews.com (216.196.110.2) 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms
2 vl304.gw1.ams.giganews.com (216.196.108.218) 0 ms vl305.gw1.ams.giganews.com (216.196.108.226) 0 ms 216-196-108-186.ams.giganews.com (216.196.108.186) 0 ms
3 linx-gw1.plus.net (195.66.224.164) 25 ms 7 ms 7 ms
4 84.92.6.180 (84.92.6.180) 7 ms 8 ms 7 ms
5 vl309.thn-gw1.plus.net (84.92.3.225) 8 ms 14 ms 9 ms
6 * * *
7 * * *
8 * * *
Max number of unresponsive hops reached (firewall or filter?) 

[code=MTR]  2. lo0-central3.thn-ag03.plus.n  0.0%    10  32.1  59.4  19.2 136.9  46.2
  3. unknown.plus.net              0.0%    10  17.8  37.3  17.8 105.2  28.5 [/code]

[#8]

The internet is very slow for me tonight. I am having to change gateways a lot.

[#9]

I'm finding browsing and speedtests OK at the moment, it was slower for me during the day 

[#10]

After disconnecting a lot of times, I am now on the gateway pcl-ag08 and the speeds are back to normal.
Hopefully it stays that way!

[#11]

Hi
I'm getting very variable speeds - now on pcl-ag02
30Dec11
http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk
Today 21:49 255 kbps (31.9kB/s) 186 kbps (23.3kB/s)
Today 21:40 267 kbps (33.4kB/s) 237 kbps (29.6kB/s)
Today 21:13 16892 kbps (2.11MB/s) 1013 kbps (127kB/s)
Today 21:08 16582 kbps (2.07MB/s) 1013 kbps (127kB/s)
Today 21:07 16315 kbps (2.04MB/s) 1014 kbps (127kB/s)
Today 21:06 17024 kbps (2.13MB/s) 1013 kbps (127kB/s)
(rebooted router re-connected to the gateway known as pcl-ag02)
Today 20:25 267 kbps (33.4kB/s) 220 kbps (27.5kB/s)
Today 20:23 289 kbps (36.1kB/s) 167 kbps (20.9kB/s)
Today 20:21 15931 kbps (1.99MB/s) 241 kbps (30.1kB/s)
Today 19:49 270 kbps (33.8kB/s) 234 kbps (29.3kB/s)
Today 19:45 261 kbps (32.6kB/s) 235 kbps (29.4kB/s)
Today 19:44 413 kbps (51.6kB/s) 243 kbps (30.4kB/s)
Today 19:42 266 kbps (33.3kB/s) 239 kbps (29.9kB/s)
Today 19:40 254 kbps (31.8kB/s) 993 kbps (124kB/s)
Today 19:31 254 kbps (31.8kB/s) 233 kbps (29.1kB/s)
Today 19:29 262 kbps (32.8kB/s) 222 kbps (27.8kB/s)
Today 19:25 263 kbps (32.9kB/s) 173 kbps (21.6kB/s)
Today 19:23 255 kbps (31.9kB/s) 237 kbps (29.6kB/s)
Today 19:20 597 kbps (74.6kB/s) 1006 kbps (126kB/s)
(router connected to the gateway known as pcl-ag06)
Also http://www.speedtester.bt.com/ reports full connection speed ans does every time I run the test (hourly!!)
30Dec11
Download speed achieved during the test was - 10088 Kbps
Your DSL Connection Rate :19800 Kbps(DOWN-STREAM), 1187 Kbps(UP-STREAM)
Upload speed achieved during the test was - 975 Kbps
Upstream Rate IP profile on your line is - 1187 Kbps
Any ideas?

[#12]

Hi
Just to add more timings - now on pcl-ag04.
Today 22:19 294 kbps (36.8kB/s) 219 kbps (27.4kB/s)
Today 22:16 16875 kbps (2.11MB/s) 293 kbps (36.6kB/s)
(currently connected to the gateway known as pcl-ag04

[#13]

Quote from: purleigh

And another one - ...

Thank you. I've added it to the list.

[#14]

I  had time outs last night on the Forum, but no trouble with BBC or a few others I tried.