At 09:29 a.m. 8/04/2005, you wrote:
>I've noticed the same as well.
>
>However connecting Via telstra clear results in lower ping times and
>faster response. Also during peak tiems (8pmish) I can see my pings go
>up and then fall straight back down at 11pm as traffic ebs off.
>
>I've heard word from people in telstra/telecom that xtra's insides are
>indeed extremely congested.
>
>All this is AFIK and IMHO.

It has been fine here very early morning (12 am-9 am). In game HL pings have bee about 200-300 ms to the US which is about normal. But yesterday, starting at around ~8? am, pings went up to about 300-500 ms.

I know there is a cable failure which is affecting at least Singaporean and Malaysia users. From the Singtel website

"Some Internet users in Singapore and other parts of Asia may experience some delay when assessing websites hosted outside of Singapore today. This is due to a cable failure in the Asia Pacific Cable Network-2 (APCN-2) reported on 7 April 2005."

I've found before that you can go to Singapore and Malaysia and other parts of Asia without going to the US first so I assume that we are connected to them in some way and while I don't know if we normally ever go through this cable, it would seem to me that it's possible they might be using part of our link as back up? Having said that tho, the fact that this appears to be mainly people using Telecom and that two of us have found it's mainly NZ off peak times suggests maybe it's an internal/domestic problem but who know's maybe both are contributing.

I assume someone on NZNOG might have a better idea what's going on, maybe they could tell us. I could browse through the archive but I can't be bothered

In any case, I've heard of pings up to 3s for Singaporean and Malaysian users at the moment so at least be glad it isn't that bad.

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