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    As noted in Blizzard's tracert guide that I keep referring people to, the response times should be tight. There should not be a massive variance between the times at the same hop. That is a big warning sign that something is going bad around that point of the route--could be signalling issue, or over-utilization...congestion is on the rise and their is potential for lost/delayed/retransmitted packets because of it. If you see intermittent * events at one hop, that means you lost packets. Again...often a sign of an overloaded network segment or other technical difficulties are negatively impacting the session. That is part of the problem with using some tools like WinMTR... you aren't able to get a better picture of just where the numbers actually stand. Tracert and ping are the more popular tools--simple, quick snapshots that allow you to better track the numbers to see just what/where the anomalies are rearing their ugly heads.

    Basically, you should NOT see a swing of even 50% across the response times at one hop. Granted, depending on what the norm is you can still manage with a high variance, but if it jumps by 100% you are pretty much looking at trouble...and in your example you go beyond even that point.

    Think of it like reading your O2 sensor data. If you see the downstream sensor bouncing all over the map from extremely low to extremely high in an erratic fashion...it sets off a red flag for you to take a closer look at your exhaust system and such.

    Just for some recent examples, using tracert as described in that blogpost:

    This is a trace from the other night when Time Warner, TATA, Level3, Verizon and others were reporting problems in NY/NJ, Atlanta, Ashburn, Nashville, Memphis, and Austin. Things were getting choppy in the game for me, but it was still playable because I am in SC and was only mildly affected by Ashburn, but it was frustrating when you are used to smooth gameplay--for others it was completely debilitating because they were getting a double/triple whammy along the way:
    Code:
    Tracing route to neolobby02.ffxiv.com [199.91.189.74]
    over a maximum of 30 hops:
    
      1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  LPTSRV [10.10.100.1]
      2    40 ms    13 ms    18 ms  cpe-75-176-160-1.sc.res.rr.com [75.176.160.1]
      3    23 ms    31 ms    33 ms  cpe-024-031-198-005.sc.res.rr.com [24.31.198.5]
      4    14 ms    15 ms    14 ms  clmasoutheastmyr-rtr2.sc.rr.com [24.31.196.210]
      5    26 ms    26 ms    26 ms  be33.drhmncev01r.southeast.rr.com [24.93.64.180]
      6    33 ms    34 ms    90 ms  bu-ether35.asbnva1611w-bcr00.tbone.rr.com [107.14.19.42]
      7    31 ms    29 ms    62 ms  0.ae2.pr1.dca10.tbone.rr.com [107.14.17.204]
      8    53 ms    48 ms    51 ms  ix-17-0.tcore2.AEQ-Ashburn.as6453.net [216.6.87.149]
      9   133 ms   155 ms    74 ms  if-2-2.tcore1.AEQ-Ashburn.as6453.net [216.6.87.2]
     10    62 ms    62 ms    70 ms  64.86.85.1
     11   175 ms   147 ms   173 ms  if-10-2.tcore1.TTT-Toronto.as6453.net [64.86.32.33]
     12    66 ms    73 ms    70 ms  if-9-9.tcore1.TNK-Toronto.as6453.net [64.86.33.25]
     13    65 ms    75 ms    80 ms  if-7-2.tcore1.W6C-Montreal.as6453.net [66.198.96.61]
     14    75 ms    76 ms    78 ms  66.198.96.50
     15    79 ms    82 ms    80 ms  192.34.76.2
     16    79 ms    78 ms    78 ms  199.91.189.234
     17    75 ms    79 ms    78 ms  199.91.189.74
    
    Trace complete.
    Now look at it tonight, where things are running considerably more smoothly (detected a slight stutter once in a while, but no rubberbanding or big skips):
    Code:
    Tracing route to neolobby02.ffxiv.com [199.91.189.74]
    over a maximum of 30 hops:
    
      1     1 ms     1 ms    <1 ms  LPTSRV [10.10.100.1]
      2    29 ms    23 ms    24 ms  cpe-75-176-160-1.sc.res.rr.com [75.176.160.1]
      3    25 ms    31 ms    31 ms  cpe-024-031-198-005.sc.res.rr.com [24.31.198.5]
      4    12 ms    14 ms    15 ms  clmasoutheastmyr-rtr2.sc.rr.com [24.31.196.210]
      5    26 ms    26 ms    26 ms  be33.drhmncev01r.southeast.rr.com [24.93.64.180]
      6    31 ms    31 ms    35 ms  bu-ether35.asbnva1611w-bcr00.tbone.rr.com [107.14.19.42]
      7    31 ms    30 ms    44 ms  0.ae2.pr1.dca10.tbone.rr.com [107.14.17.204]
      8    60 ms    55 ms    72 ms  ix-17-0.tcore2.AEQ-Ashburn.as6453.net [216.6.87.149]
      9    70 ms    74 ms    71 ms  if-2-2.tcore1.AEQ-Ashburn.as6453.net [216.6.87.2]
     10    67 ms    69 ms    67 ms  64.86.85.1
     11    71 ms    78 ms    79 ms  if-10-2.tcore1.TTT-Toronto.as6453.net [64.86.32.33]
     12    68 ms    75 ms    82 ms  if-9-9.tcore1.TNK-Toronto.as6453.net [64.86.33.25]
     13    74 ms    75 ms    72 ms  if-7-2.tcore1.W6C-Montreal.as6453.net [66.198.96.61]
     14    77 ms    73 ms    66 ms  66.198.96.50
     15    72 ms    69 ms    68 ms  192.34.76.2
     16    65 ms    70 ms    70 ms  199.91.189.234
     17    58 ms    60 ms    69 ms  199.91.189.74
    
    Trace complete.
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    Last edited by Raist; 07-29-2015 at 10:14 AM.

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    They are sending me a new router for tomorrow, but I don't see how that will fix this.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alexika View Post
    They are sending me a new router for tomorrow, but I don't see how that will fix this.
    try doing a system restore to a point when you could log in hope that helps
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