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BT Connection gone bad! + Option 4...

Alright well 12th Jan I went away to see family and my mum followed a day later. She turned the router off to save power (IMO they dont use much but no harm, right?)

Well I get back the following Monday (so thats 3 days its been off) and when I turn it on, I get about 7 disconnects in an hour. Not unusual, guess its syncing again.

My friend and I both pinged 5-6ms to a certain game server. Both of us on BT, and he still pings that. However, as of 2 weeks ago, this is no more.

Connection to each hop was about 5-6, again - sometimes going 1ms lower to 4. They were good times. But now I experience this:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 31 ms 34 ms 27 ms 217.47.41.122
3 28 ms 29 ms 28 ms 217.47.41.161
4 28 ms 28 ms 28 ms 217.41.175.13
5 29 ms 27 ms 28 ms 217.41.175.142
6 28 ms 27 ms 29 ms 217.41.219.46
7 27 ms 27 ms 27 ms 217.47.154.82
8 28 ms 27 ms 27 ms core1-pos7-0.bletchley.ukcore.bt.net [194.72.31.145]

I used to ping 40 to east coast American servers - no visible lag. I now ping over 100.

So I restart my router tonight. Nothing changed. If anyone has any ideas or theories or comments, please post!

Also, what does option 4 give me? The site is currently down for maintenance so I dunno what i've got! But I know I pay for it :>


Edit: I just checked my router again and remembered what was different!!!

Under the DSL Path Mode, it says "Interleaved" whereas it used to be "Fast". What could the reason be for the change, and what difference would it now have? (If any)

Thanks!
 
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Interleaved, i once had it explained to be as if you were travelling from 1 to 5 in fast mode it's go 1-2-3-4-5 where as in interleaved mode it may go 1-3-2-5 (someone tell me if thats wrong). It's this round about way of getting to the final destination that cuases the extra lag in your pings. The likely cause is you, like me have a poo quality telephone line.
 
Pings of 5-6 is just not possible on ADSL.. I guess your game server / game was relaying the wrong info.

If you were on Cable.. maybe ;)

Pings of 15ms is the lowest I have ever seen on any ADSL line.

Tom - www.mouselike.org
 
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Sorry man but I had 5 - 6. And I used both the router's ping and my own command prompt ping. And I know other people on BT who have the same. Tell my why it isn't possible.

And I found out a little about interleave; its used when theres a fault on your line but BT can turn it off. I'll ring tomorrow and get that done. If anyone knows anymore, feel free to disagree about that.
 
Pings of 15ms is the lowest I have ever seen on any ADSL line.

Tom - www.mouselike.org

Pinging somewhere like jolt I typically get around 13ms. This is on an AOL connection. I guess potentially a BT Central Plus product could be very slightly better and living in the right loacation might also help but 5-6 does seem unachievable! :shrug:

>ping jolt.co.uk

Pinging jolt.co.uk [82.133.85.65] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=48
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=48
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=48
Reply from 82.133.85.65: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=48

Ping statistics for 82.133.85.65:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 12ms, Maximum = 14ms, Average = 13ms

Interleaving significantly improves error correction at the cost of increased latency. Ask you ISP to disable it.
 
actually your a little wrong about interleaving if l remember rightly, having it turned on increases Ping times but its kind of used for error correction which means you loose less packets (correct me if lm wrong tho someone :p thats just what l remember from reading up)
 
(correct me if lm wrong tho someone :p thats just what l remember from reading up)

Nope, your right, if you get are getting lots of FEC errors (forward Error correction) you may want interleave left on as packets may have to to be resent instead, although presumably BT's ADSLmax software will reduce the sync rate if necessary ?
 
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No thank you lol; I only got it because I left my router off for 3 days (before that, it was "FAST"). And I did get low pings, sorry. I'll post 'em when I get Interleave off!
 
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