ISP or Me?

[INW]

I am wondering if you guys think this horrible ping activity is my ISP or me (maybe a faulty cable or something).

This is tested to G5's server IP with a cable router (no wifi or wireless). Ping is just as bad to google.com when pinging from cmd. Getting roughly 500 ping every time.

[kyle]

look at traceroute (tracert windows) to see where the holdup may be

[INW]

Where should I do a trace route to?

I just did it to google.com and got:

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Tracing route to google.com [74.125.115.99]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  CISCO03326 [192.168.1.1]
  2  1029 ms   821 ms   736 ms  cpe-174-099-024-001.nc.res.rr.com [174.99.24.1]
  3  1043 ms   939 ms   805 ms  a-rtr1-10gig0-2-0-1.1121.nc.rr.com [66.26.46.85]
  4   648 ms   735 ms   767 ms  ae19.rlghncpop-rtr1.southeast.rr.com [24.93.64.0]
  5   576 ms   818 ms   728 ms  ae-3-0.cr0.dca10.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.80]
  6   183 ms    66 ms   112 ms  ae-2-0.pr0.dca10.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.169]
  7    19 ms    20 ms    21 ms  66.109.9.66
  8    44 ms    22 ms    21 ms  216.239.48.112
  9   436 ms   140 ms    47 ms  209.85.243.114
 10    80 ms    31 ms    31 ms  64.233.174.117
 11   339 ms    50 ms    35 ms  209.85.253.181
 12   632 ms   523 ms    34 ms  vx-in-f99.1e100.net [74.125.115.99]

Trace complete.

nc(.res).rr.com is my ISP I do believe.

Here is another I just did:

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Tracing route to google.com [74.125.93.104]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  CISCO03326 [192.168.1.1]
  2   151 ms   189 ms    12 ms  cpe-174-099-024-001.nc.res.rr.com [174.99.24.1]
  3    14 ms    13 ms    11 ms  a-rtr1-10gig0-2-0-1.1121.nc.rr.com [66.26.46.85]
  4    57 ms    13 ms   316 ms  ae19.rlghncpop-rtr1.southeast.rr.com [24.93.64.0]
  5   473 ms   303 ms   178 ms  ae-3-0.cr0.dca10.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.80]
  6   373 ms   357 ms   622 ms  ae-2-0.pr0.dca10.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.169]
  7   298 ms   386 ms   585 ms  66.109.9.66
  8   727 ms   598 ms   495 ms  216.239.48.112
  9   415 ms   498 ms   362 ms  209.85.248.75
 10     *       59 ms    46 ms  209.85.254.239
 11    28 ms    66 ms   576 ms  64.233.175.14
 12   243 ms   196 ms    29 ms  qw-in-f104.1e100.net [74.125.93.104]

Trace complete.

Does the asterisk represent an error?

[sinewav]

It's your ISP. Time Warner right? I have the same problems with them. My connection is practically useless for online play.

[INW]

Yep.

Well thanks. I figured that. Parents won't listen to me.

[compguygene]

Time Warner puts a Switch in a given neighborhood. At first, when not to many people are using it, no problem. But, when a bunch of people start getting the internet, it sucks.

[Tank Program]

Hurrah for contention ratio issues. (First guess as to what it could be, and nothing you can do about it really if it is.) The * means there was a timeout, so either the packets were lost or they just took too long.