Ping Plotter

[Blairgowrie]

Anybody care to try and interpret this Ping Plotter graph taken this afternoon while hosting? Look at the packet loss once it gets out into the net. Fine from me to my IP then the horrors start. Those thick red bars at the bottom of the graph are not good.

I was pinging this website. 

[Rattler]

I was having trouble connecting at around that same time, BG. A temporary slow down, perhaps? Freak occurance?

[GreyKnight]

Well that 5th hop, the 1st router at cogentco.com, with 90% packet loss was the big culprit. I see you ran that test for 10 mins.

I ran the test from here in Austria, and it looks like our site is hosted in Dallas, and this is what mine looked like using NeoTrace...

I'm surprised it took me 20 hops to get to Dallas, from here in Central Europe, whilst you in Canada still took 18.

[Blairgowrie]

I was having trouble connecting at around that same time, BG. A temporary slow down, perhaps? Freak occurance?

Unfortunately, I am beginning to see this a lot more often lately and believe it is a general slowdown on the Internet. It may well get worse over time. On the bright side, it doesn't happen that often on the weekend. 

[BBloke]

It may just be a dodgy router that is causing a hiccup in the routing.

[delta7]

I have pinged your server bg and its the cogento.com servers that are at fault reaching you as well

[Blairgowrie]

Thanks guys. I am going to collect a few more screenshots and see if I can get my IP to change the routing. He currently uses two providers Bell Canada and Ontario Hydro. I am currently routed through Bell Canada. He likely knows which routing is best.