Hi & a traceroute question

[karser]

First I should really say hi, have been an idnet customer since january, with the exception of a month in august when I moved home twice, which will hopefully go part way to explaining what kind of crazy my life has been this year that I havent got round to posting before now.

Secondly, & I hope I'm posting this in the right forum as its more of a technical question than game specific, years ago I used to host a server for myself & a couple of friends on Call of Duty - United offensive, to which they used to get around 50ish ping (they live in the same town ). Trying to host a server on CoD4 now, not often just an hour or 2 a week usually, & my friends get ping of 100, & I'm currently trying to get to the bottom of why this is happening, I have requested interleaving off which will hopefully happen on monday, & I have looked into all kinds of tweaks & such, but the world of routers is a bit of a mystery to me right now.

I'm waffling....., to get to the nuts n bolts of it, I found the setting on my router to allow ping temporarily, & had my friends ping me & run tracert, they both get virtually the same results, & generally have pings between 30-60 to any game server in the uk,  so I will only post one to save space & your time.

  1     4 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  local.gateway [192.168.1.1]
  2    36 ms    35 ms    27 ms  esr4.sheffield3.broadband.bt.net [217.47.73.143]

  3    35 ms    36 ms    27 ms  217.47.73.30
  4    36 ms    34 ms    38 ms  217.47.110.10
  5    36 ms    35 ms    35 ms  217.41.176.29
  6    45 ms    35 ms    34 ms  217.41.176.126
  7    33 ms    36 ms    36 ms  217.41.176.46
  8    35 ms    36 ms    36 ms  217.47.19.113
  9    35 ms    34 ms    39 ms  core2-pos4-0.sheffield.ukcore.bt.net [217.32.171
.185]
10    38 ms    34 ms    36 ms  core2-pos15-0.manchester.ukcore.bt.net [62.6.201
.253]
11    44 ms    42 ms    45 ms  core2-pos0-1-0-0.ilford.ukcore.bt.net [62.6.204.
253]
12    44 ms    45 ms    45 ms  transit2-gig9-0-0.ilford.ukcore.bt.net [194.72.2
0.250]
13    43 ms    35 ms    35 ms  t2c2-ge14-0-0.uk-ilf.eu.bt.net [166.49.168.121]

14    34 ms    37 ms    37 ms  t2c1-p3-1.uk-lon1.eu.bt.net [166.49.208.2]
15    35 ms    36 ms    37 ms  t2a5-ge0-1.uk-lon1.eu.bt.net [166.49.135.123]
16    44 ms    35 ms    72 ms  166-49-214-130.eu.bt.net [166.49.214.130]
17     *        *        *     Request timed out.
18    44 ms    44 ms    46 ms  telehouse-gw2-g0-2-400.idnet.net [212.69.63.242]

19    87 ms    80 ms    82 ms  removed


Hop 19 is my I.P address, & I would like to know if this indicates the problem is with my router at the moment, or if its routing between Idnet & me, as this is where both of their pings suddenly jump up, as I have not been able to find a clear answer googling away.

All ports are forwarded for the game & they can join with no problems or packet loss, & I can join any uk game with around 45 - 65 ping. Idnet has been fantastic since I joined, often see over 800k a sec downloads off peak, & usually 500-600+ even onpeak, I do live 140metres from my exchange, I can see it if I look out the window 

I know its not a major problem, but its a niggling one which I would like to get to the bottom of, as my friends do like to say I have an unfair advantage as an excuse every time I shoot them

Thanks for your time & sorry for the long post, hope I didnt bore you to sleep.

edit to remove personal ip address

[Glenn]

Hi karser 

Someone will be along shortly that will be able to offer some advice, have you spoken to the support team about the problem?

[David]

   Hi Karser cant help you Im afraid but can like Glenn welcome you it wont take long for someone to read  your post 

[Simon]

  Karser!  Sorry, I can't help you either, but there should be a few more people around tomorrow. 

[Sebby]

Having interleaving switched off should certainly lower the pings. But I don't know the answer to your question about the 19th hop - that may be one for IDNet.

[Rik]

Hi Karser, welcome to the forum.

TBH, we normally get asked about pings going in the other direction, so I have no idea what the problem might be. Some routers do give low priority to ping requests, so that's one possibility, but I think you would be best talking to support, who can take a look at your connection from their end.

[karser]

Thanks for all the welcomes guys . I havent asked support about it yet, because I wasnt sure if it might be a setting on my router, if it is I should probably contact linksys rather than idnet, so I thought it might be better to throw it open to the forum first, but I will email support later.

[Steve]

Welcome. Hopefully removing the the delays caused by interleave and error correction will solve you ping issues.