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Help and Support Forums => Technical Support => Topic started by: hubsonfire on November 11, 2008, 06:40:22 PM
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Skuzzy, have you heard anything (negative) about these guys?
http://www.nframe.com/
The local electric utility has an offshoot now that offers fiber internet and cable to their customers. After a months long wait, we got connected last fall, and all was good. 3M/256K, cheaper than DSL, worked fine. The last few weeks, it's been poop. Pingplotter shows something like this-
Target Name: N/A
IP: 206.16.60.39
Date/Time: 11/11/2008 7:44:13 PM
1 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms [192.168.1.1]
2 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms 2 ms 11 ms 11 ms 12 ms 11 ms 11 ms 12 ms [10.6.5.65]
3 2 ms 2 ms 3 ms 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 2 ms 3 ms 3 ms IP-64-72-134-177.nframe.net [64.72.134.177]
4 101 ms 144 ms 139 ms 145 ms 85 ms 81 ms 119 ms 115 ms 154 ms 139 ms IP-64-72-134-225.nframe.net [64.72.134.225]
5 122 ms 138 ms 136 ms 129 ms 74 ms 80 ms 125 ms 129 ms 157 ms 157 ms Cedar-2-SpruceA.nframe.com [216.37.0.125]
6 125 ms 137 ms 138 ms 124 ms 78 ms 80 ms 122 ms 116 ms 164 ms 164 ms POS0-0-1.GW4.IND6.ALTER.NET [157.130.103.245]
7 131 ms 149 ms 128 ms 124 ms 74 ms 81 ms 118 ms 106 ms 163 ms 193 ms 0.so-0-0-2.XL1.IND6.ALTER.NET [152.63.67.250]
8 144 ms 158 ms 141 ms 109 ms 79 ms 94 ms 126 ms 104 ms 163 ms 163 ms 0.so-5-0-0.XL1.CHI13.ALTER.NET [152.63.64.18]
9 126 ms 160 ms 132 ms 117 ms 87 ms 95 ms 120 ms 120 ms 170 ms 156 ms 0.so-6-0-0.BR2.CHI13.ALTER.NET [152.63.73.25]
10 120 ms 171 ms 163 ms 104 ms 102 ms 87 ms 142 ms 124 ms 161 ms 151 ms uu-gw.cgcil.ip.att.net [192.205.35.181]
11 154 ms 187 ms 185 ms 112 ms 142 ms 130 ms 188 ms 160 ms 183 ms 188 ms tbr2.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.87.254]
12 156 ms 170 ms 185 ms 114 ms 142 ms 131 ms 183 ms 155 ms 175 ms 186 ms cr2.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.17.237]
13 156 ms 175 ms 184 ms 118 ms 134 ms 132 ms 189 ms 146 ms 196 ms 194 ms cr2.sl9mo.ip.att.net [12.122.2.22]
14 157 ms 175 ms 186 ms 128 ms 138 ms 125 ms 182 ms 146 ms 192 ms 198 ms cr1.sl9mo.ip.att.net [12.122.2.217]
15 157 ms 180 ms 184 ms 122 ms 125 ms 132 ms 188 ms 148 ms 197 ms 196 ms cr2.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.3.221]
16 166 ms 176 ms 178 ms 114 ms 121 ms 135 ms 185 ms 167 ms 204 ms 191 ms gar5.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.138.5]
17 171 ms 176 ms 170 ms 137 ms 138 ms 143 ms 180 ms 180 ms 193 ms 190 ms mdf1-gsr12-1-pos-7-0.dal1.attens.net [12.122.255.82]
18 167 ms 171 ms 187 ms 137 ms 132 ms 147 ms 183 ms 261 ms 203 ms 187 ms mdf1-bi8k-1-eth-1-1.dal1.attens.net [63.241.192.250]
19 163 ms 164 ms 182 ms 138 ms 124 ms 142 ms 177 ms 175 ms 199 ms 204 ms [206.16.60.39]
Now, it wasn't always like this, but it has been consistently poop in the evenings (when I can play) for a few weeks now. I'd read all the election crap was going to create major traffic issues, but I would have thought it would have dwindled some afterwards. It hasn't- if anything, it's worse now, due to increased packet loss. Is this just traffic choking them out, or are there other factors at work?
I'd never heard of them until I ran pingplotter, and the local provider is upgrading our connection come January (doing away with their 3M/256K offering, making 10/1 the basic fios service.) I would have been thrilled, but I'm not thinking a crappy 10M connection is any better than a crappy 3M connection. Right now, I'm lucky to get a good connection to HTC at all. Last night it was dropping packets everywhere between Chicago and Dallas according to Pingplotter; this afternoon my ping to the MAs was 850, and to the forum it was over a full second, and now my ping is ranging from 60 to 200+, with random packet loss.
My dialup connection had very nearly the same latency, and packet loss. I had hoped fiber would be an upgrade, but it looks like I got screwed. Is there any word on these guys? Are they trying to become another Savvis or Level3?
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I have never heard of them, but that is a pretty high number of hops. Unusually high coming from Indiana. 5 hops just in Chicago.
Seeing a lot of that lately though. The more hops you have to go through the more likelihood of something going wrong.
Other than the hop count, the trace does not look too bad. An 80ms variance is tolerable. There is no packet loss in that trace either.
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Yeah, I pasted the wrong trace in initially. The PL faded out, but the ping increased from 140- ~200ms. I know that's within the scope of the game, but it still sucks compared to ~40-60. I had hoped for something better than this. Some evenings, and some times, I can't even play. Yesterday when it was at it's worst, I couldn't even access the forums to ask about it.
Well, I'll keep my fingers crossed I guess.
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See Rule #2
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See Rule #2
"....last edited by Skuzzy"
ahhhhh come on Skuzzy, you can do better than that ! :t