improve ping time between servers in remote locations

you should run a traceroute between the locations and check where the latency delays are introduced. DO you have a direct connection or does the router traverse the public internet ?

post the traceroute back, but generally you should be looking for any triple figure numbers, then you can check if they belong to an ISP you can contact to resolve. It may be something in your ISP, something in a peering partner or something remote. Either way a traceroute should identify who to contact and begin working on the issue.

This is propably due to overloaded overseas connection between the sites. There isn't much you can do about it unless you afford to buy guaranteed overseas bandwidth.

Not so true, he could use a VPN system offered by many companies to route his traffic over an alternative set of hops... it could be as you suggest that one of the upstream partners is overloaded but there may be ways around it...

Hi, this is the trace route - it is over the open internet.

81.137.216.57 is from United Kingdom(UK) in region Western Europe




TraceRoute to XX.XXX.XXX.XX[hostXX-XXX-XXX-XX.in-addr.btopenworld.com]

Hop (ms) (ms) (ms)  IP Address Host name
1 15 35 59  72.249.128.109 -
2 27 22 30  206.123.64.22 -
3 54 36 56  64.124.196.225 xe-4-2-0.er2.dfw2.us.above.net
4 14 27 74  64.125.27.81 xe-0-1-0.cr2.dfw2.us.above.net
5 17 11 39  64.125.30.54 xe-3-1-0.cr2.dca2.us.above.net
6 47 131 38  64.125.30.54 xe-3-1-0.cr2.dca2.us.above.net
7 125 146 163  64.125.24.42 xe-4-1-0.mpr1.lhr3.uk.above.net
8 121 124 118  64.125.27.225 so-0-0-0.mpr1.lhr2.uk.above.net
9 128 119 171  64.125.28.125 xe-4-2-0.mpr1.lhr1.uk.above.net
10 132 147 150  195.66.224.69 linx1.ukcore.bt.net
11 150 149 131  109.159.249.6 acc1-10gige-0-7-0-1.l-far.21cn-ipp.bt.net
12 119 120 122  109.159.249.102 -
13 142 133 123  109.159.249.102 -
14 215 190 211  213.120.176.177 -
15 134 142 140  213.120.176.9 -
16 178 146 117  213.120.178.130 -
17 Timed out 141 Timed out  213.120.178.130 -
18 Timed out Timed out Timed out   -
19 Timed out Timed out Timed out   -
20 Timed out Timed out Timed out   -
21 Timed out Timed out Timed out   -

Trace aborted.

Can you suggest a VPN system Woolnoir? Are you talking about a hardware solution i.e netgear VPN router to netgear VPN router at the sites?

try pinging 213.120.178.130 and seeing what times you get over say a minute ?

109-111ms.

The server im trying to ping (in the UK) is on a DSL connection. Is there anyway easy way to tell if it is saturated?

I rdped into the server in the UK (it was extremely slow - much slower than normal). I pinged news.bbc.co.uk and the avg was 1139ms!!! What the hell! I checked to see if there were any open VPN connections but there were none open!

no traceroute?

I dont know what the problem was yesterday but this morning I can ping Aberdeen on avg at 172ms. That seems reasonable?

thats about as good as you could expect trans Atlantic

>I dont know what the problem was yesterday but this morning I can ping Aberdeen on avg at 172ms. That seems reasonable?

I will put my money on a congested link.