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Rubberbanding => Networktrouble

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
Hi all,

I noticed some rubberbanding while in the game. When I started /netgraph I noticed a strange behavior:

I have a ping between 150 and 300, which is kinda slow but since it goes over the Atlantic, I guess I have to live with it. But every now and then, (between 5 and 10 seconds) the green graph is spiking to the top and you notice a significant lag or rubberband effect. I was curious about this and did a traceroute to the server. Looks like there is a small hiccup in the network:

C:\Users\Thoran>tracert 208.95.184.168

Tracing route to 208.95.184.168 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 6 ms 7 ms 6 ms e320-bn1.netcologne.de [195.14.226.43]
2 6 ms 6 ms 7 ms core-eup1-te24.netcologne.de [78.35.33.165]
3 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms core-sto2-t41.netcologne.de [87.79.17.22]
4 130 ms 132 ms 132 ms rteq-g03.netcologne.de [81.173.194.169]
5 241 ms 211 ms 206 ms cr1-eqix-peer.wdc005.internap.net [206.223.115.129]
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 145 ms 146 ms 145 ms nym009-phi004-813-cr2.nym009.internap.net [66.79.147.10]
9 143 ms 142 ms 140 ms bsn006-nym009-9-cr1.bsn006.internap.net [66.79.158.9]
10 105 ms 105 ms 106 ms bsn004-bsn006-792-mpr1.bsn004.internap.net [66.79.145.34]
11 200 ms 183 ms 109 ms border12.te8-1-bbnet2.bsn.pnap.net [63.251.128.105]
12 110 ms 107 ms 107 ms cryptic-1.border12.bsn.pnap.net [63.251.130.10]
13 110 ms 109 ms 110 ms 208.95.184.168

Trace complete.

Two interesting points:
Between 3 and 4 is the transatlantic line, so that increase is expected.
But the jump between 5 and 6 looks like a problem between my provider and their peering partner in the states. 6 and 7 are router which don't answer to the ICMP requests thats why there are stars, the remaining path looks good.

Just wanted to document this in case you get more of these reports. Maybe others with this problem can post their traceroute too.

Kind regards

Ala
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