Ping Times

[#1]

I recently moved from Eclipse to +net and am concerned about the times I'm getting from pings.
During the day (08:00 to 18:00), on Eclipse, the slowest I ever saw pinging the BBC was 86ms - it was typically consistent between 46 to 58ms. On +net I've never got lower than 82ms - typical times are around 120ms, with occasional 230ms periods. I'm running a Netgear DG834GT with the latest firmware. I normally use OpenDNS but get the same results (a ms or two quicker) when I let +net define the DNS.
Even now (23:50) ping time is 56ms - on Eclipse this would be in the low 40s.
Any thoughts?

[#2]

they look high for interleved path but request for iinterleaving to be turned off on your line. in member centre go to help asstitant then broadband connection then dslmax interleaving and asked for it to be turned off. on fastpath i get 16ms to bbc.co.uk

[#3]

Hi Ottmar,
Is this still happening?  I'd expect you to see ping speeds a bit lower than that even if you do have interleaving turned on.
Could you possibly show us a traceroute to the BBC to see if we can spot where the slow down is happening?

[#4]

Thanks AD.. I've followed your advice. I'll let you know the result.

[#5]

[tt]Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Documents and Settings\SnotGobbler>tracert bbc.co.uk
Tracing route to bbc.co.uk [212.58.254.252]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.0.1
  2    48 ms    49 ms    48 ms  lo0-plusnet.thn-ag3.plus.net [195.166.128.80]
  3    48 ms    49 ms    50 ms  vl303.thn-gw1.plus.net [84.92.3.177]
  4    80 ms  205 ms  216 ms  te2-3.thn-gw2.plus.net [212.159.1.58]
  5    45 ms    58 ms    44 ms  rt0.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.239.25]
  6    45 ms    44 ms    47 ms  212.58.238.133
  7    45 ms    44 ms    89 ms  rdirslb0.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.136]
  8    44 ms    44 ms    44 ms  virtual3.rbsov.bbc.co.uk [212.58.254.252]
Trace complete.
C:\Documents and Settings\SnotGobbler>[/tt]

[#6]

What sort of a user name is that!

[#7]

Typical isn't it? Behaves itself when you're watching.

[#8]

Well, it's a pretty anonymous one for a start.

[#9]

I meant "SnotGobbler"!
ICMP is lower priority traffic, so ping times can go up if the network is busy. You weren't looking at the ping times when Andy Murray was on court by any chance?

[#10]

Yeah, well if you can work out my real name from SnotGobbler you're pretty good.
No, I gave up on t'internet when Murray was playing.

[#11]

Here's another tracert
It seems to slow down at hop 3 or 4.
[tt]Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Documents and Settings\TechnicalBaffleGab>tracert bbc.co.uk
Tracing route to bbc.co.uk [212.58.254.252]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.0.1
  2    51 ms    46 ms    58 ms  lo0-plusnet.thn-ag3.plus.net [195.166.128.80]
  3  102 ms    44 ms    62 ms  vl303.thn-gw1.plus.net [84.92.3.177]
  4    44 ms    45 ms    43 ms  te2-3.thn-gw2.plus.net [212.159.1.58]
  5    43 ms    44 ms    47 ms  rt0.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.239.25]
  6    44 ms    98 ms    45 ms  212.58.238.133
  7    49 ms    45 ms    44 ms  rdirslb0.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.136]
  8    45 ms    44 ms    45 ms  virtual3.rbsov.bbc.co.uk [212.58.254.252]
Trace complete.
C:\Documents and Settings\TechnicalBaffleGab>[/tt]

[#12]

Page display is much better this morning, but still noticeably slower than last week when I was using Eclipse.
Another tracert done a few minutes ago.
[tt]Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
C:\Documents and Settings\Anne Nonymus>tracert castlefarmbandb.co.uk
Tracing route to castlefarmbandb.co.uk [213.175.206.48]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
  1    1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.0.1
  2    57 ms    83 ms    45 ms  lo0-plusnet.thn-ag3.plus.net [195.166.128.80]
  3    55 ms    83 ms    46 ms  vl303.thn-gw1.plus.net [84.92.3.177]
  4  204 ms  229 ms    49 ms  lonap.blueconnex.net [193.203.5.24]
  5    50 ms    50 ms  104 ms  pri.bsq3-the.as29550.net [217.112.81.90]
  6    70 ms    49 ms    55 ms  preston.eukhost.com [213.175.206.48]
Trace complete.
C:\Documents and Settings\Anne Nonymus>tracert www.castlefarmbandb.co.uk[/tt]

[#13]

jelv i belive icmp packets are 0xa0

[#14]

Oh, and by the way:
[tt]
                  Down          Up
Attenuation      26 db        15db
SNR              8.1db        21db   
[/tt]
As reported by the Netgear router.

[#15]

Thanks for those.
I've checked your line - which looks fine.
Are you running anything else which might be up/downloading data at the same time?