really poor pings

[highG.I]

hopefully a networking guru can help me, i am attempting to work out why my pings are so poor. if i try and ping the games servers in sydney (i am in sydney too) my pings look something like this:

Reply from 202.154.83.56: bytes=32 time=1370ms TTL=63

Reply from 202.154.83.56: bytes=32 time=658ms TTL=63

Reply from 202.154.83.56: bytes=32 time=1283ms TTL=63

Reply from 202.154.83.56: bytes=32 time=613ms TTL=63

however if i use the tool provided at forum-replies.cfm?t=120329#r27

in this case i am using: dan.redgumtech.com.au (the machine resides in melbourne)

this account can ping 202.154.83.56 at the following rates

Reply from 202.154.83.56: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=57

Reply from 202.154.83.56: bytes=32 time=70ms TTL=57

Reply from 202.154.83.56: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=57

Reply from 202.154.83.56: bytes=32 time=61ms TTL=57

i am confused, i am in sydney therefore i must be logically and i presume physically closer to the machine with the ip: 202.154.83.56, yet it takes longer for me to reach it than the dude in melbourne; can i presume that basically there could be something wrong at any layer? ie there could be something wrong with my modem: nb1300, something wrong with my switch conected to the modem: xnet 10/100 something wrong with the cabling in between me and the exchange? or anything else?

can someone give me some possible explanations for the bad pings? i am at a loss

cheers,

Nick

[sticky_chicken]

hopefully a networking guru can help me, i am attempting to work out why my pings are so poor. if i try and ping the games servers in sydney (i am in sydney too) my pings look something like this:

Reply from 202.154.83.56: bytes=32 time=1370ms TTL=63

Reply from 202.154.83.56: bytes=32 time=658ms TTL=63

Reply from 202.154.83.56: bytes=32 time=1283ms TTL=63

Reply from 202.154.83.56: bytes=32 time=613ms TTL=63

however if i use the tool provided at forum-replies.cfm?t=120329#r27

in this case i am using: dan.redgumtech.com.au (the machine resides in melbourne)

this account can ping 202.154.83.56 at the following rates

Reply from 202.154.83.56: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=57

Reply from 202.154.83.56: bytes=32 time=70ms TTL=57

Reply from 202.154.83.56: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=57

Reply from 202.154.83.56: bytes=32 time=61ms TTL=57

i am confused, i am in sydney therefore i must be logically and i presume physically closer to the machine with the ip: 202.154.83.56, yet it takes longer for me to reach it than the dude in melbourne; can i presume that basically there could be something wrong at any layer? ie there could be something wrong with my modem: nb1300, something wrong with my switch conected to the modem: xnet 10/100 something wrong with the cabling in between me and the exchange? or anything else?

can someone give me some possible explanations for the bad pings? i am at a loss

cheers,

Nick

Nick,

For your reference, I've got a web based ping tool available (I'm in Sydney - Lower North Shore) at http://www.e-mailme.org/ping/

What connection are you on? What are your download speeds like? Has this problem always existed?

[3cakes]

can you post a trace route from your sydney machine.

this will tell you/us which hop is having the problems.

[highG.I]

okay so sadly it was quite easy to work out, i use overnet and basically it was using all my bandwidth, it was continuing to run even when i shut it down, i had to basically kill the process....

thanks for all your help