darexius2010 wrote:
Did some more diagnostics now that I'm moved in full-time. Turned out that everyone believes that those little boxes you plug into the wall between a regular phone and the wall are some kind of mythical recording device for the NSA. Plugged them in, this is what I got
Robs-Mac:~ robcrist$ traceroute google.com
traceroute: Warning: google.com has multiple addresses; using 74.125.224.98
traceroute to google.com (74.125.224.98), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 2.982 ms 3.131 ms 2.699 ms
2 phnx-dsl-gw69.phnx.qwest.net (67.40.227.69) 154.940 ms 41.888 ms 42.126 ms
3 phnx-agw1.inet.qwest.net (75.160.238.33) 42.233 ms 41.664 ms 42.281 ms
4 los-edge-05.inet.qwest.net (67.14.22.106) 55.344 ms 52.265 ms 54.563 ms
5 65.113.16.38 (65.113.16.38) 54.109 ms 83.560 ms 54.053 ms
6 * 64.233.174.238 (64.233.174.238) 53.223 ms 54.944 ms
7 209.85.250.245 (209.85.250.245) 54.982 ms 53.651 ms 53.333 ms
8 lax02s19-in-f2.1e100.net (74.125.224.98) 53.007 ms 56.001 ms 53.286 ms
I see a 154ms spike in amongst all of those 50s...
You doing all of this at the same time of day, or different times of the day?
IMO, next time you get a chance (especially on a weekend), I'd do 50 pings to google at, say, 8AM, Noon, 4PM, and 8PM and see if they are all about the same.
Maybe high-traffic (Sat. Evening, etc), the whole ISP is bogging down because of the traffic, while early morning off-times are just fine?
EDIT: Come to think of it, I had that very problem with my ADSL for awhile last year. I'd get wild pings in the early-mid evening hours and then suddenly it'd go back to normal. I'd do 50 pings to google and I'd get 5-10 pings that were 70ms and then I'd get 5 that were 500+ and then 5 that were 70ms, etc. When I called and asked them, they checked their stuff and they said that I was on a congested line and they switched me to another one and I now get 30-40ms to Google on average.
Edited, Apr 13th 2014 5:29pm by Lyrailis