me either....
has anyone had problems besides him?
It may be your isp, they may be routing you through some crappy route, like a route that has a piece of bad hardware somewhere in the mix. Problems like this are out of my hands but usually are fixed by the at fault ISP within a week.
Paste us your trace, go to [start] then click on 'run' and type CMD (in vista type 'cmd' in the text box on the start menu). Then type...
tracert testmy.net
after it's finished tracing paste it here... cut and paste in with command console is a little weird, you need to right click and select 'select all' then hit the [enter] key to copy the text... then just paste it here like normal.
Could you also do an extended ping for me and paste it here, you will run the command in the command console just like the other command I gave you, the ping command I would like you to run is...
ping testmy.net -n 30
also run it on our other server...
ping s2.testmy.net -n 30
that command will ping the servers 30 times, depending on what the problem is doing 10 or more pings will usually show major fluctuation if theres a problem somewhere along the line... again, depending on what the problem is.
Here's my traceroute and ping to testmy.net
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:UsersDamon>traceroute testmy.net
'traceroute' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
C:UsersDamon>tracert testmy.net
Tracing route to testmy.net [67.18.179.85]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 7 ms 9 ms 9 ms 10.114.128.1
3 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms ip68-2-6-209.ph.ph.cox.net [68.2.6.209]
4 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 68.2.12.90
5 9 ms 9 ms 8 ms 68.2.12.9
6 9 ms 9 ms 10 ms 68.2.12.5
7 9 ms 8 ms 10 ms 68.2.12.1
8 9 ms 11 ms 10 ms chnddsrj01-ae1.0.rd.ph.cox.net [68.2.14.1]
9 31 ms 32 ms 32 ms dalsbbrj02-ae0.r2.dl.cox.net [68.1.0.143]
10 36 ms 34 ms 32 ms et2-25.ibr05.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.126.22
5]
11 128 ms 32 ms 46 ms vl31.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.127.30]
12 36 ms 33 ms 34 ms 4e.fd.5746.static.theplanet.com [70.87.253.78]
13 32 ms 35 ms 33 ms gi1-0-2.car17.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.116.8
5]
14 32 ms 33 ms 32 ms 55.b3.1243.static.theplanet.com [67.18.179.85]
Trace complete.
C:UsersDamon>
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:UsersDamon>tracert s2.testmy.net
Tracing route to s2.testmy.net [67.18.179.133]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 6 ms 6 ms 9 ms 10.114.128.1
3 6 ms 8 ms 8 ms ip68-2-6-209.ph.ph.cox.net [68.2.6.209]
4 8 ms 7 ms 15 ms 68.2.12.90
5 8 ms 13 ms 8 ms 68.2.12.9
6 9 ms 8 ms 10 ms 68.2.12.5
7 32 ms 11 ms 9 ms 68.2.12.1
8 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms chnddsrj02-ae1.0.rd.ph.cox.net [68.2.14.13]
9 32 ms 30 ms 32 ms dalsbbrj02-ae0.r2.dl.cox.net [68.1.0.143]
10 30 ms 32 ms 34 ms et2-25.ibr05.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.126.22
5]
11 32 ms 32 ms 31 ms vl31.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.127.30]
12 34 ms 31 ms 33 ms 4e.fd.5746.static.theplanet.com [70.87.253.78]
13 33 ms 34 ms 32 ms gi1-0-2.car17.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.116.8
5]
14 33 ms 34 ms 34 ms 85.b3.1243.static.theplanet.com [67.18.179.133]
Trace complete.
C:UsersDamon>
[/code]
And pings to both servers....
[code]
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:UsersDamon>ping testmy.net -n 30
Pinging testmy.net [67.18.179.85] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=36ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=51
Ping statistics for 67.18.179.85:
Packets: Sent = 30, Received = 30, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 31ms, Maximum = 36ms, Average = 33ms
C:UsersDamon>
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:UsersDamon>ping s2.testmy.net -n 30
Pinging s2.testmy.net [67.18.179.133] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 67.18.179.133: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.133: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.133: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.133: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.133: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.133: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.133: bytes=32 time=36ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.133: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.133: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.133: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.133: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.133: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.133: bytes=32 time=39ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.133: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.133: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.133: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.133: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.133: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.133: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.133: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.133: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.133: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.133: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.133: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.133: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.133: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.133: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.133: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.133: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=51
Reply from 67.18.179.133: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=51
Ping statistics for 67.18.179.133:
Packets: Sent = 30, Received = 30, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 30ms, Maximum = 40ms, Average = 32ms
C:UsersDamon>
Looks great on my end. Actually my pings and trace are better than they used to be...