Need help finding the cause of these seemingly connectivity-based issues.

[Aeliott]

Location - England
Speed - Upload: 0.38 MB/s (approx), Download: 2.17 MB/s (approx). This is at present, while these issues are going on in-game.
Connectivity - Wireless

Pinging 199.91.189.22 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 199.91.189.22: bytes=32 time=118ms TTL=240
Reply from 199.91.189.22: bytes=32 time=114ms TTL=240
Reply from 199.91.189.22: bytes=32 time=114ms TTL=240
Reply from 199.91.189.22: bytes=32 time=113ms TTL=240
Reply from 199.91.189.22: bytes=32 time=114ms TTL=240
Reply from 199.91.189.22: bytes=32 time=115ms TTL=240
Reply from 199.91.189.22: bytes=32 time=130ms TTL=240
Reply from 199.91.189.22: bytes=32 time=120ms TTL=240
Reply from 199.91.189.22: bytes=32 time=123ms TTL=240
Reply from 199.91.189.22: bytes=32 time=115ms TTL=240

Ping statistics for 199.91.189.22:
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 113ms, Maximum = 130ms, Average = 117ms

Tracing route to 199.91.189.22 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 2 ms 99 ms 99 ms BThomehub.home [192.168.1.254]
2 28 ms 29 ms 28 ms 217.32.141.128
3 29 ms 35 ms 29 ms 217.32.141.190
4 33 ms 35 ms 33 ms 212.140.235.66
5 32 ms 34 ms 39 ms 31.55.164.191
6 33 ms 40 ms 33 ms 31.55.164.109
7 32 ms 32 ms 33 ms acc2-10GigE-0-5-0-6.bm.21cn-ipp.bt.net [109.15
248.228]
8 44 ms 39 ms 39 ms core1-te-0-13-0-4.ilford.ukcore.bt.net [109.15
248.136]
9 37 ms 37 ms 37 ms peer2-xe3-3-0.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net [109.159
54.231]
10 38 ms 38 ms 37 ms t2c3-xe-0-2-0-0.uk-lon1.eu.bt.net [166.49.211.
0]
11 43 ms 40 ms 39 ms be3035.ccr21.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117
4.169]
12 40 ms 38 ms 38 ms te0-2-0-4.mpd21.lon13.atlas.cogentco.com [154.
.57.94]
13 45 ms 46 ms 46 ms be2285.ccr21.lpl01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117
9.126]
14 126 ms 127 ms 126 ms te0-2-0-4.ccr21.ymq02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.
.0.70]
15 115 ms 114 ms 114 ms 38.122.42.34
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 116 ms 157 ms 116 ms 192.34.76.2
18 115 ms 115 ms 117 ms 199.91.189.234
19 118 ms 115 ms 115 ms 199.91.189.22

Trace complete.

The above looks rather normal as far as I know, apart from hop 16.

[Marishi-Ten]

Location - England
Speed - Upload: 0.38 MB/s (approx), Download: 2.17 MB/s (approx). This is at present, while these issues are going on in-game.
Connectivity - Wireless





The above looks rather normal as far as I know, apart from hop 16.

Hop 16 is internal in the Montreal Data Center. Look at the huge latency spike between hops 13 and 14. You go from 46ms to 126ms. Though latency is additive, you shouldn't see a spike that high between two points.

Well, well. Looks like Cogent is having all sorts of issues today (namely between SBC and AT&T). This is more than likely the cause of the rubber banding. backbones experiencing latency with one another. It happens sometimes (you get hit the worst as your data stream has to go from the UK to Canada). Nothing we can really do about it, but the good news is they usually resolve the issues rather quickly.

You could contact your ISP and request (they may or may not do it) that they reroute you around either Cogent, AT&T, and SBC nodes.

http://www.internetpulse.net/