Very High Ping On Airtel

[RedskyITM]

Hey guys,

I have an Airtel connection in Whitefield Bangalore (fibre 16MBps) and for the past few days my ping has been very high to pretty much everywhere.

Here's what I mean:

Look at that rubbish. A ping to a Bangalore ACT IP goes through London and Marseille and ends up with 206ms.



Here are a few more servers compared to my ACT internet connection.


Airtel: speed1.jioconnect.com (106ms) Mumbai

ACT: (38ms)

Airtel: speedtestdel1.airtel.in (84ms) Delhi

ACT: (164ms) this one is bad

Airtel: sp1-blr.youbroadband.in (79ms) Bangalore

ACT: (4ms)

Airtel: speedtestblr1.rcom.co.in (81ms) Bangalore

ACT: (35ms)

Airtel: speedtestblr.actcorp.in (80ms) Bangalore

ACT: 1ms. Not surprising really.


So yeah, very high ping. Keep in mind that these are Speedtest.net servers so they represent the best case scenario. Actual servers are much higher at 120ms+ even within Bangalore. I have tried contacting them on Twitter but I have not received a response since yesterday. Can you guys help me test a few more servers please?

 

[RedskyITM]

I find it hard to believe I am the only one facing routing issues.

 

[rajil.s]

Here are my trace-routes from Lucknow to the Acttv for both Airtel and BSNL. Both go via London but Airtel trumps BSNL.

Airtel

traceroute -i pppoe-wan 106.51.116.240
traceroute to 106.51.116.240 (106.51.116.240), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1  abts-north-static-001.124.176.122.airtelbroadband.in (122.176.124.1)  21.408 ms  20.764 ms  20.321 ms
2  abts-north-static-101.124.176.122.airtelbroadband.in (122.176.124.101)  19.033 ms  18.637 ms  17.949 ms
3  125.21.196.217 (125.21.196.217)  17.943 ms  61.518 ms  18.188 ms
4  182.79.245.141 (182.79.245.141)  197.676 ms  182.79.245.137 (182.79.245.137)  190.288 ms  182.79.222.17 (182.79.222.17)  175.112 ms
5  ix-tge-12-4-501.mse1.LVX-London.as6453.net (195.219.92.57)  169.050 ms  167.230 ms  210.400 ms
6  if-ae-25-2.tcore1.L78-London.as6453.net (80.231.130.141)  178.948 ms  169.043 ms  169.010 ms
7  *  if-ae-2-2.tcore2.L78-London.as6453.net (80.231.131.1)  174.443 ms  165.242 ms
8  if-ae-9-2.tcore2.WYN-Marseille.as6453.net (80.231.200.13)  177.659 ms  170.155 ms  171.196 ms
9  80.231.200.30 (80.231.200.30)  174.963 ms  168.779 ms  174.754 ms
10  172.29.210.45 (172.29.210.45)  186.685 ms  184.474 ms  191.833 ms
11  115.112.9.74.STATIC-Bangalore.vsnl.net.in (115.112.9.74)  185.205 ms  194.033 ms  185.113 ms
12  83.26-broadband.acttv.in (202.83.26.2)  197.876 ms  189.320 ms  188.839 ms
13  *  *  *
14  *  *  *
15  51.116-broadband.acttv.in (106.51.116.240)  190.286 ms  199.798 ms  226.698 ms
16  51.116-broadband.acttv.in (106.51.116.240)  2207.291 ms !H  3188.716 ms !H  3189.985 ms !H

BSNL

# traceroute -i pppoe-wan2 106.51.116.240
traceroute to 106.51.116.240 (106.51.116.240), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1  117.197.16.1 (117.197.16.1)  64.033 ms  64.639 ms  65.024 ms
2  218.248.166.210 (218.248.166.210)  64.934 ms  63.198 ms  64.007 ms
3  218.248.235.197 (218.248.235.197)  95.064 ms  94.186 ms  *
4  218.248.235.198 (218.248.235.198)  93.496 ms  94.257 ms  *
5  115.113.165.93.static-mumbai.vsnl.net.in (115.113.165.93)  96.029 ms  *  96.638 ms
6  172.29.210.45 (172.29.210.45)  128.079 ms  172.29.206.13 (172.29.206.13)  92.220 ms  172.29.210.45 (172.29.210.45)  111.673 ms
7  172.29.210.45 (172.29.210.45)  111.271 ms  *  *
8  115.112.9.98.STATIC-Bangalore.vsnl.net.in (115.112.9.98)  104.301 ms  83.26-broadband.acttv.in (202.83.26.2)  109.746 ms  109.439 ms
9  83.26-broadband.acttv.in (202.83.26.2)  106.714 ms  if-ae-2-2.tcore2.L78-London.as6453.net (80.231.131.1)  208.116 ms  210.070 ms
10  *  *  if-ae-9-2.tcore2.WYN-Marseille.as6453.net (80.231.200.13)  210.098 ms
11  80.231.200.30 (80.231.200.30)  208.118 ms  *  *
12  172.29.210.45 (172.29.210.45)  228.685 ms  *  225.721 ms
13  *  115.112.9.98.STATIC-Bangalore.vsnl.net.in (115.112.9.98)  222.779 ms  232.500 ms
14  83.26-broadband.acttv.in (202.83.26.2)  236.525 ms  *  *
15  *  *  *
16  *  *  *
17  *  *  *
18  *  *  *
19  *  *  *
20  *  *  *
21  *  *  *
22  *  *  *
23  *  *  *

 

[RedskyITM]

Thanks for the traces. It's weird that BSNL is going through Marseilles and London too.

Here's my Jio LTE trace (not so great signal)

Tracing route to 51.116-broadband.acttv.in [106.51.116.240]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.42.129
  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  3    39 ms    39 ms    38 ms  10.71.164.162
  4     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  5     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  6     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  7     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  8     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  9    54 ms    54 ms    66 ms  49.44.8.0
10     *        *        *     Request timed out.
11     *        *        *     Request timed out.
12     *        *        *     Request timed out.
13    47 ms    69 ms     *     121.240.1.233
14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
15    73 ms    80 ms     *     115.112.9.98.STATIC-Bangalore.vsnl.net.in [115.1
12.9.98]
16    64 ms     *        *     83.26-broadband.acttv.in [202.83.26.2]
17     *        *        *     Request timed out.
18     *        *        *     Request timed out.
19    73 ms     *        *     51.116-broadband.acttv.in [106.51.116.240]
20    73 ms     *       73 ms  51.116-broadband.acttv.in [106.51.116.240]

Trace complete.

It is still within 100ms though and stays within India from what I can tell.



edit - Actually, can you tell me what you think is happening between line 8-14 of your BSNL trace? It looks like you find the ACT gateway but it's sending you through London, Marseilles and then finally back to the same gateway.



edit 2 -Lots more weirdness.

Airtel ping to ACT gateway:

Airtel ping to ACT connection through above gateway: