Sturmangriff
Limp Gawd
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I have been having some problems with my ISP (Cableone) and latency issues..especially during primetime/weekends. I guess they have oversold and have been told they are allegedly working on it...yeah right...But while investigating this doing some tracerts I noticed something I need clarification on.
When I did a tracert to a website the first hop was a 10.100.x.x (which sometimes has latency issues)address followed by two 192.168.x.x addresses (which is where the latency seems to be the highest most of the time)before hitting Level 3.
My first question is Does this seem right? I have only ever seen 192.168.x.x while dealing with my home network.
I signed up for a VPN (PrivateInternetAccess) and tested the same tracert and the first hop was a 10.178.x.x address followed by the second hop which was the vpn..Softlayer. Using the VPN seems to help my latency issues somewhat, I guess because it's bypassing the 2nd and 3rd 192.168.x.x addresses.
My second question is: Would this VPN be an alternative I could use for gaming until hopefully the local issues get sorted out...or is it a matter of if the problem is local...you are screwed whether you use a VPN or not?
Thanks for reading.
When I did a tracert to a website the first hop was a 10.100.x.x (which sometimes has latency issues)address followed by two 192.168.x.x addresses (which is where the latency seems to be the highest most of the time)before hitting Level 3.
My first question is Does this seem right? I have only ever seen 192.168.x.x while dealing with my home network.
I signed up for a VPN (PrivateInternetAccess) and tested the same tracert and the first hop was a 10.178.x.x address followed by the second hop which was the vpn..Softlayer. Using the VPN seems to help my latency issues somewhat, I guess because it's bypassing the 2nd and 3rd 192.168.x.x addresses.
My second question is: Would this VPN be an alternative I could use for gaming until hopefully the local issues get sorted out...or is it a matter of if the problem is local...you are screwed whether you use a VPN or not?
Thanks for reading.
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