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Why are you pinging yourself? 127.0.0.1 or localhost is your loopback address or yourself. All your checking with this is your own network adapter)NIC) .
You need to put in the IP address of your provider. I know for a fact the UK was having problems the last couple of weeks. but should be back to normal

UUnet was experiencing High utilization that propagated all the way back here to the us.

This is what I get when I do a tracert from my PC to my game server:

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\jim>tracert 66.151.108.123

[code:b6a3c]Tracing route to 66.151.108.123 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 29 ms 41 ms 5 ms 10.2.120.1
2 8 ms 6 ms 6 ms 68.9.8.85
3 9 ms 12 ms 11 ms 68.9.8.201
4 8 ms 36 ms 16 ms provdsrc02-gew0304.rd.ri.cox.net [68.9.14.17]
5 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms provbbrc02-pos0101.rd.ri.cox.net [68.1.0.48]
6 36 ms 62 ms 35 ms provdsrc02-gew03010999.rd.ri.cox.net [68.1.0.51]

7 39 ms 51 ms 35 ms so-6-0-0.gar2.wdc1.Level3.net [67.29.170.1]
8 39 ms 42 ms 36 ms so-7-0-0.edge1.Washington1.Level3.net [209.244.1
1.14]
9 40 ms 38 ms 36 ms POS1-1.BR1.IAD8.ALTER.NET [209.0.227.118]
10 35 ms 35 ms 36 ms 0.so-1-3-0.XR2.IAD8.ALTER.NET [152.63.32.118]
11 37 ms 43 ms 45 ms 0.so-0-0-0.CL2.IAD5.ALTER.NET [152.63.38.142]
12 43 ms 41 ms 37 ms 201.at-2-0-0.XR2.DCA6.ALTER.NET [152.63.35.49]
13 38 ms 38 ms 37 ms 0.so-1-3-0.XL2.DCA6.ALTER.NET [152.63.35.118]
14 38 ms 43 ms 44 ms POS7-0.GW4.DCA6.ALTER.NET [152.63.36.177]
15 40 ms 39 ms 39 ms internap1-gw.customer.alter.net [157.130.59.194]

16 55 ms 40 ms 39 ms border1.ge4-1-bbnet2.ext1.wdc.pnap.net [216.52.1
27.82]
17 41 ms 54 ms 39 ms netfire-2.border1.ext1.wdc.pnap.net [66.150.126.
58]
18 42 ms 55 ms 44 ms 216.52.118.2
19 41 ms 55 ms 50 ms 66.151.108.123

Trace complete.

C:\Documents and Settings\jim>[/code:b6a3c]

What we have here:19 hops, This means all my packets go threw a router/switch 19 times before reaching my destinations

[quote:b6a3c]1 29 ms 41 ms 5 ms 10.2.120.1 [/quote:b6a3c]
1 = hop number, this is the first router I hit.
29 ms = first packet took 29 ms to hit hop and get a response
41 ms = first packet took 41 ms to hit hop and get a response
5 ms = first packet took 5 ms to hit hop and get a response
10.2.120.1 = the physical IP address of this hop (router/switch)

Now I know for a fact that my first hop is less then 1 mile away. This is how close I am located to my local cable provider. as you can see tracert sends 3 packets and then averages the times . my first two are really high for this hop. My 3rd time is what it should be. If this keeps up I will contact my provider and complain. I also know they have been working on the truck line in my area.

I live in RI ( north east of the US ) my server is located on the east coast just south of me about 700 miles away.

I also know my cable provide's network exits and connects to the Internet in Atlanta ( east coast about 1800 miles away )

Looking at all the hops. My provider is exiting it's network in the DC area ( probably because of unrelated issues with UUnet )

This is good for me as my server is located in DC. Last week when my pings were over 500ms to my server. I was exiting out of Atlanta and going threw Dallas then Ohio to hit DC. Round trip over 4000 miles b4 hitting my server.

Also from the tracert I can see if my cable company is having problems kind of good because I can complain to them, don't know if it will do any good but still I have someone to complain to.

IF it was outside my providers network then there is nothing I can do. Possibly my provider can complain to there provider but since the Internet is a shared network it might do no good.

Hope this helps. I will be putting together a basic tracert , ping doc going a little more in dept. It wont be anytime soon though.


Good luck and try another tracert with your game server's IP and see what you get.