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ahoy beautiful people of the interwebs.

Now ive never been one for connection problems and my internets has always been rather reliable, however since I have came back from uni and now playing in what has to be regarded as the most uncomfortable setup ever it has decided to piss itself up the wall.

I constantly have a 300 ping in mIRC and streaming stuff on youtube has been very slow. I cant even play tf2 as wen i get into a server it just says connection error disconnect it T-MINUS .

I dont play that much anymore cos i cant really be arsed but would still like to dick about every now and again playing pickups and shit. I did a tracert cos im cool as fuck to http://www.jolt.co.uk and this is what it found. (it also timed out on a few occasions)

Tracing route to http://www.jolt.co.uk [84.234.17.86]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 74 ms 99 ms 99 ms BThomehub.home [192.168.1.254]
2 38 ms 35 ms 36 ms esr1.edinburgh5.broadband.bt.net [217.32.78.140]

3 37 ms 35 ms 36 ms 217.32.78.13
4 37 ms 37 ms 37 ms 217.47.187.6
5 37 ms 37 ms 37 ms 217.41.218.17
6 38 ms 37 ms 38 ms 217.41.174.66
7 37 ms 35 ms 37 ms 217.41.174.78
8 38 ms 37 ms 37 ms 217.41.218.38
9 37 ms 37 ms 37 ms 217.32.78.98
10 36 ms 37 ms 38 ms core1-pos8-2.edinburgh.ukcore.bt.net [217.32.169
.225]
11 45 ms 43 ms 43 ms core1-pos8-1.manchester.ukcore.bt.net [62.6.201.
21]
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 51 ms 51 ms 51 ms core2-10G0-5-0-0.ealing.ukcore.bt.net [194.74.65
.138]
14 50 ms 51 ms 49 ms core2-pos14-0.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net [195.99.12
5.193]
15 54 ms 53 ms 53 ms 195.99.125.86
16 52 ms 51 ms 51 ms te5-1.telehouse-north0.core.enta.net [87.127.246
.122]
17 50 ms 51 ms 51 ms 78-33-11-214.static.enta.net [78.33.11.214]
18 54 ms 54 ms 57 ms ge-4-13_ge-4-14.cat1.sov.lon.as29131.net [87.117
.211.10]
19 50 ms 203 ms 199 ms 83.142.224.34
20 52 ms 51 ms 51 ms bruce.ferrago.net [84.234.17.86]

Duno what to think of this, any geeks out there wanna shed some light into it.

mIRC also has a nice LAGBAR that has sum stats. This is what that threw up.

Time connected: 21m 10s
Current lag: 313 ms
Average lag: 360 ms (from last 92 checks/23mins)

HELP!!!!!!!!!!! I just want my solid internets back.

Oh yea, On BT, been on it for years, never had problems before, using bthomehub v1.0

brap

peace out

spence xx

1 74 ms 99 ms 99 ms BThomehub.home [192.168.1.254]

The lag is coming from your first hop, that’s means your router/modem is really fucked up. If I was you I would claim a new one at your ISP ;)

Well u have the home hub which means either it’s been doing alot of updates for your home hub? and causing you to lag out.

Or

You have malware/spyware

Little program in the background or cookie session stored is referencing to a website of spyware content, which keeps pinging or asking for some of your connection every second constantly hence you get lag spikes and the hops!

May i suggest Spybot Search n Destroy! : > and do a virus check too…

BT are very reliable i’m with you however i don’t use their poo home hub as it’s poo!

Cheers

Byte

the BT and Home Hub combination was a total nightmare for me, but ymmv.