zach_lloyd
join:2006-04-10
Greenwood, SC
 ·Embarq
 ·Dish Network
 ·Northland Cable Te..
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June 23rd, @10:55PM
| Random Spikes of Latency
I recently moved to a new location and retained my Embarq service. I had very little trouble with connection reliability at my old address. Unfortunately it seems things may be changing.
Every 5-10 minutes or so at my new address, I will encounter a huge spike in RTT as seen from the copy/paste of a tracert command below. The latency will skyrocket for 10 minutes, then return to normal values in 10 minutes. The high latency times start at the first hop past my router. What could be the cause of this? I've reset my router/modem and directly connected to the modem itself with the same results.
C:\Documents and Settings\User>tracert -d google.com
Tracing route to google.com [64.233.187.99]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 79 ms 112 ms 134 ms 71.54.56.1
3 363 ms 288 ms 325 ms 65.41.232.217
4 302 ms 348 ms 293 ms 160.81.74.177
5 208 ms 157 ms 131 ms 144.232.3.56
6 73 ms 84 ms 84 ms 144.232.20.155
7 162 ms 159 ms 137 ms 160.81.98.34
8 110 ms 102 ms 223 ms 209.85.130.18
9 106 ms 108 ms 128 ms 72.14.238.136
10 116 ms 84 ms 79 ms 216.239.47.1
11 64 ms 67 ms 71 ms 216.239.49.222
12 65 ms 65 ms 66 ms 64.233.187.99
Trace complete.
I've tried to catch this latency using the Line Quality test here on DSLR, but everytime I queue it up, the latency is gone by the time the tests runs. I will keep trying to see if I can get better results |
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zach_lloyd
join:2006-04-10
Greenwood, SC
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June 23rd, @11:12PM
| »/linequality/nil/2399333
»/linequality/nil/2399358
I seem to have caught some there. |
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zach_lloyd
join:2006-04-10
Greenwood, SC | »/linequality/nil/2399493
Apparently the router at Raleigh is having some issues... |
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Monolith
join:2007-07-25
Clayton, NC | reply to zach_lloyd
Since I am in Clayton, I would think I would use the same route, I will do some testing tonight and see if I have the same problem. Are you seeing it at certain times of the day? |
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zach_lloyd
join:2006-04-10
Greenwood, SC | Mostly in the afternoon/evening |
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Monolith
join:2007-07-25
Clayton, NC | reply to zach_lloyd
»/linequality/nil/2399649 |
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zach_lloyd
join:2006-04-10
Greenwood, SC | Well there you go...looks like that router is having problems. How is your latency? |
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zach_lloyd
join:2006-04-10
Greenwood, SC | reply to zach_lloyd
Is this a problem with Embarq's network or what? |
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Monolith
join:2007-07-25
Clayton, NC
| reply to zach_lloyd
»/linequality/nil/2399874
Not seeing the problem at 7am. Looks to be late in the day or at night as you said.
I would think this is a Level3 problem. Going to run test again tonight see what happens. Yes I do see some Latency trying to play any online games or VPN to work, takes forever. |
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zach_lloyd
join:2006-04-10
Greenwood, SC | That's how I noticed the problem originally...spiking latency doesn't bode well for online gaming.  |
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Monolith
join:2007-07-25
Clayton, NC | reply to zach_lloyd
so the afternoon is upon us again, and the probelm starts yet again...
»/linequality/nil/2400036 |
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zach_lloyd
join:2006-04-10
Greenwood, SC | It's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack
»/linequality/nil/2400111 |
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Gemologist
Premium
join:2001-11-15
USA
clubs: 
·Embarq
| reply to zach_lloyd
Same issues I dealt with for years with them. Never did fix the issues and always blamed the problems on my hardware, funny since no problems since switching to Cable, lol.
The spikes always happen during peak hours. Oversold bandwidth is the problem.
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Monolith
join:2007-07-25
Clayton, NC | reply to zach_lloyd
really starting to annoy me
»/linequality/nil/2400820 |
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zach_lloyd
join:2006-04-10
Greenwood, SC | If it's an issue with Level3, wouldn't that mean there is little Embarq can do? |
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Gemologist
Premium
join:2001-11-15
USA
clubs: | reply to zach_lloyd
My issues were never with Level 3, they were ALWAYS on Emabarq's/Sprint's end of things.
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espaeth
Misanthrope
Premium
join:2001-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
·Comcast
·Embarq
| reply to zach_lloyd
Smokeping last 30 hours |
You can sign up yourself for free here: »/smokeping
You can see that once prime time hits, latency goes to hell. For the last couple years I've been running my VoIP traffic over DSL because it was more stable, but as of the last couple weeks I've moved that all over to my Comcast cable connection because VoIP is unusable on DSL at night with that kind of jitter. |
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zach_lloyd
join:2006-04-10
Greenwood, SC | Just when I thought the problem had disappeared.........
»/linequality/nil/2403808 |
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zach_lloyd
join:2006-04-10
Greenwood, SC
·Embarq
·Dish Network
·Northland Cable Te..
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July 6th, @10:11PM
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»/linequality/nil/2403911
»/r3/smokeping.···fd5ab.NY
Come on Embarq...you can barely browse with this latency, much less use VOIP or game. |
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dude34221
join:2002-06-13
Galena, OH
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July 7th, @12:30AM
| reply to zach_lloyd
it is the 90s with sprintlink and latency, thank goodness embarq spun off when they did. this jitter/latency problem is common to me as well. i am a developer, coder, and hardcore gamer. have been since the start of online "multiplayer games that were original" aka not java checkers
»img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/A_Pac/dd.gif
and 45 traceroutes later with nothing on the connection or network activity
»img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/···/dd2.gif
the loss %'s in the 90s are false positives. they appear high to show the blockage of icmp ping 100% of the time. the 2.1% loss though, is where the problem is. sprintlink again proven to be the problem with 2.1% loss in routing change in addition to sporadic ping times as you can see from picture two in the maximum ping chart. packetloss+latency spikes up to 170ms=/voip/webcam chat/combo of both/, hell. forget trying to do anything with music as well, it will sync terrible no matter what you tune it to. |
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