There is nothing wrong with 192.168.253.225 being in the trace.

The Latency between hops 4 and 5 is a "problem" yes which you should contact
your ISP and get them to contact Telecom for them to fix.

Thanks
Craig
----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham Vincent" <graham@gpv.co.nz>
To: <adsl@lists.unixathome.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 3:20 PM
Subject: poor ping and an illegal IP address

> Hello.
>
> Major complaint today from my son who tells me his ping is so bad he can't
> play a decent game of UT2004.
>
> I ran a traceroute for him:
>
>> Tracing route to tribes2.games.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.75]
>> over a maximum of 30 hops:
>> 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms fred [192.168.10.40] 2 * *
>> * Request timed out.
>> 3 48 ms 49 ms 49 ms 210-55-64-32.adsl.netgate.net.nz
>> [210.55.64.32] 4 48 ms 47 ms 47 ms 192.168.253.225 5 *
>> 240 ms 247 ms 202.50.245.9 6 240 ms 209 ms 201 ms
>> A5-0-0-19.akcr5.global-gateway.net.nz [202.50.245.105] 7 187 ms 249
>> ms 257 ms vlan-6.aksw7.global-gateway.net.nz [202.37.246.21] 8 233
>> ms 217 ms 225 ms 203.96.120.146 9 208 ms 241 ms 248 ms
>> tribes2.games.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.75] Trace complete.
>
> Hop 4 looks interesting - Isn't that an illegal address for use in the
> wicked outside world? And the 200ms delay from hop 4 to 5 certainly looks
> like the cause of most of the lag to the game server.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Graham
>
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