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It's not a server question, but perhaps you guys can help me anyway.

I got DSL about 2 weeks ago, and it pinged the zone I play in at a steady 120 ms. A week later, it goes up to a stable 160 ms without a particular reason.

I tried tracing some of the zones, and all the ip's traced were pinged pretty quickly and they all appeared within a second or two.

However, when I attempted pinging the zone I play in, it paused on IP # 12 and IP # 13, where it procrastinated for a few seconds and then skipped both, one at a time, leaving only '...' instead of the ip string.

I noticed there were only two zones which pinged higher than 120 ms, so I traced the other zone and the same thing happened.

The last IP for both zones that actually gets detected, # 11, is 205.171.4.170

I figure maybe there are some temporary technical difficulties in that area which cause the issue? Or perhaps someone has a better explanation for it?

Lofty · Newbie Joined: Oct 02 2004 Posts: 5 Offline

Oops, forgot to log in; that was my post.

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 12:13 am Post subject:

160ms is a fine ping. It's just differences in network usage, don't worry about it.

The reasons some IPs are pausing on tracert is that those IPs don't have an associated domain name. That's fine too.
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Lofty · Newbie Joined: Oct 02 2004 Posts: 5 Offline

But how can it be reverted back to 120? 160 is a huge difference between 120 for me, and it's only 10 ms less than my previous 56k 170 ms which would almost make it completely pointless for me to even have DSL in the first place.

Is there a way for it to go back to 120?

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 12:30 pm Post subject:

No there's not (without getting some professional internet package like T1), and it's not a huge difference.

Lofty · Newbie Joined: Oct 02 2004 Posts: 5 Offline

For you maybe it isn't, but for me it is

Smong · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 11:11 am Post subject:

Rent your own server that has a better ping and get the zone(s) to move to it.

Lofty · Newbie Joined: Oct 02 2004 Posts: 5 Offline

Alright, it went back down to normal finally yesterday. Thanks anyway.