High pings due to stupid routes

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After noticing that I have some unusually high pings to some countrys/internet provders, I decided to find out why.  

Here are the "best routes" to three different South African internet providers from my own provider (Telstra New Zealand)

The last trace is from a major New Zealand ISP to a major Australian ISP.

Can anyone else top these "best routes" ?

 

Note: route on first picture goes from New Zealand -> Australia -> New Zealand -> Los Angeles.............etc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

Well talk about pointless, when I send my classmate 1 meter next to me an MSN message the data goes through US servers (I live in the EU)...

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

Err, TowelOfDoom, I think you are missing the fact that the connection is actually going through the pacific to Los Angeles ;). There probably is no direct connection from New Zealing to South Africa.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Remember also, the NSA needs to copy all the traffic so thus it must be.  This is a joke...and also not really a joke.  Hi NSA!

Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

I live on Guam, which is right next door to Australia, and I get 400 ping to Australian players. So yeah, some work could be done tharr...

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Wow, ridiculous. Speaking of stupid routes, I live in Canada and have seen some pretty bad NA routes. I played on xbox live with a friend who lives an 8 minute drive from me. We logged on our computers and had a 300 ping. Brutal.

Reply #6 from Demigod Forums Top

Spooky, I am aware of that fact.  The lines obviously arnt exactly where the traffic goes, the pics above are simply joining the hops and trying to fit it all on one screen.

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Some of it is following the major backbones, some of it is just dumbass routing.  That point you keep hitting on the west coast is the end point of the main access off Australia.  It's one hell of a transit running across the pacific there.  The guys on the islands inbetween you might actually have to hit the US and then travel back along that main connection.  Australia is sure to be your typical hub, as NZ is too small to be running all that fibre.

 

Most of those are pretty sensible routes.  That second one is the only really stupid one.  The last could have just been a break in your normally functional connection to the mainland over there, either by equipment fault or high use slowing it down.  Rerouting through Japan would be a bloody good idea if the normal path were saturated.  The others are pretty fast.

Reply #8 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting psychoak, reply 7
Some of it is following the major backbones, some of it is just dumbass routing.  That point you keep hitting on the west coast is the end point of the main access off Australia.  It's one hell of a transit running across the pacific there.  The guys on the islands inbetween you might actually have to hit the US and then travel back along that main connection.  Australia is sure to be your typical hub, as NZ is too small to be running all that fibre.

 

Most of those are pretty sensible routes.  That second one is the only really stupid one.  The last could have just been a break in your normally functional connection to the mainland over there, either by equipment fault or high use slowing it down.  Rerouting through Japan would be a bloody good idea if the normal path were saturated.  The others are pretty fast.

 

In the first picture (route to openweb) it goes to Australia to then back to New Zealand again (where it started) before travelling across the pacific, seems pretty stupid to me, and London next?

I was also suprised to find that at no point a route was taken from Perth to South Africa, maybe there isnt one, I dont know.

 

The route to Internode from Telstra NZ (only New Zealand ISP affected) seemd to be fixed :D .  That route had been a problem for several months, adding an extra 200ms to anyone I played Demigod with in Australia.