For the record -
I play Battlefield 1942 and have had to moan repeatedly at the Xtra
helpdesk who have indicated they have had multip[le reports lately of load
related issues.

I experience intermittant periods of very high ping to all sites beyond my
default gateway router within Telecoms network. And when I mean ping, I
mean the odd burst of up to 5 seconds with an average of 2 seconds.
(Nevermind the couple of hundred that might be tolerable in a gaming
session.

The end effect is similar to a rate limited line in some cases, although
im not rate limited. i.e. th e link will be fine untill i load it up,
then it will go to pot.

DSL Helpdesk advise they are 'looking into it.' My next game is scheduled
for this coming week so hopefully i'll see some improvement soon :|

Have also noted that even under normal non-rediculous conditions my lag
to the Xtra gaming servers has gone up by 20 or 30 ms lately. (And i'm an
Xtra Customer)

So judging by comments on the list there are problems across the
board....

Mark.

rogere@xtra.co.nz wrote:

> I play erverquest and have noticed the ping time got from 250ms to 450ms. this started about 2 weeks ago. I'm with xtra and 2mb ADSL.
>
> Roger
>
> >
> > From: "Sachiv Mehra" <SMehra@lumley.co.nz>
> > Date: 2005/04/08 Fri AM 09:29:05 GMT+12:00
> > To: "ADSL Mailing List \(E-mail\)" <adsl@lists.unixathome.org>
> > Subject: RE: Anyone noticing general performance degradation lately
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Rgds
> > Sachiv
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-adsl@unixathome.org [mailto:owner-adsl@unixathome.org] On
> > Behalf Of Simon Cobb
> > Sent: Friday, 8 April 2005 9:03 a.m.
> > To: Tony Paterson; ADSL Mailing List (E-mail)
> > Subject: RE: Anyone noticing general performance degradation lately
> >
> > Yep - nothing scientific, but sites - both local and international -
> > seem WAY slower for the past couple of days (I'm a 2Mbps JetStream Plus
> > user in ChCh).
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Simon
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-adsl@unixathome.org [mailto:owner-adsl@unixathome.org] On
> > Behalf Of Tony Paterson
> > Sent: Friday, 8 April 2005 5:03 a.m.
> > To: ADSL Mailing List (E-mail)
> > Subject: Anyone noticing general performance degradation lately
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Anyone else noticing longer latencies and general performance issues.
> >
> > This started with our Wellington JetStream connection and now I suspect
> > the same with our Auckland connection - not sure if its just us. Yes I
> > have reported it for Wellington but now I am noticing it at home as
> > well, so I am getting suspicious the problem might be bigger.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
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