Tt&t Maxnet Browsing Speed Has Deteriorated Dramatically Over The Last 5 Days

[Barin]

Hello there,

Did anyone notice that the TT&T Maxnet web browsing speed has deteriorated dramatically over the last 5 days?

On the other hand the file download speed is still good, no problem.

This problem affects only the web browsing speed, most of the websites in Europe and China are being opend very slowly. The latency with Russian sites is around 10 seconds!

I am in Bangkok on 3BB Maxnet 4 Mbps.

The ADSL modem is from Maxnet: Huawei SmartAX MT880 with original firmware as it comes from TT&T (I did not upgrade the firmware).

And I don't use any torrents, I don't even have any bittorrent software installed.

The local Speedtest is producing excellent results though:

Download Speed: 3990 kbps (498.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload Speed: 506 kbps (63.3 KB/sec transfer rate)

14 December 2009 09:31:01

I have done quite a number of Tracroute tests over the past 2 days.

I noticed a very chaotic routing to nodes in Europe, Asia and America.

What happens is that one of the Maxnet routers (mx-ll-58.147.0-69.static.tttmaxnet.com [58.147.0.69] or mx-ll-58.147.0-73.static.tttmaxnet.com [58.147.0.73]) which is within 2 or 3 hops from my "default gateway" or even the "default gateway" itself would decide to route the packets directly over the long path to the destination network segment (probably in an attempt to save the cost TT&T may want to use some cheap satellite link for overseas traffic).

However the remote router overseas for some unknown reason would not direct the packets by the short path to the destination host which is on the same network segment but rather decide to return the packets back to the Maxnet network in Thailand. This results in a very high latency and payload. After that the packets are being directed to their destination over the normal long path.

I have never seen this kind of routing before. Is it normal?

Are there any Internet routing gurus here in the Forum? Please advise.

Below are two recent Tracroute results (one is for a popular host in Moscow, Russia and the other one is for a well-known host in Shenzhen, China).

tracert -w 20000 mail.zmail.ru

Tracing route to mail.zmail.ru [195.2.72.149]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 24 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1

2 * 14302 ms 35 ms mx-ll-58.147.0-74.static.tttmaxnet.com [58.147.0.74]

3 34 ms 32 ms 32 ms mx-ll-58.147.0-73.static.tttmaxnet.com [58.147.0.73]

4 * 8218 ms 56 ms jam-l3sw-2-vlan404.msk.zenon.net [62.113.112.68]

5 * * 32 ms mx-ll-58.147.0-69.static.tttmaxnet.com [58.147.0.69]

6 * 67 ms 67 ms mx-ll-58.147.0-134.static.tttmaxnet.com [58.147.0.134]

7 64 ms 64 ms 64 ms if-0-0-7.core2.S9R-Singapore.as6453.net [209.58.96.13]

8 236 ms 236 ms 236 ms if-13-0-0-995.mcore4.PDI-PaloAlto.as6453.net [216.6.86.49]

9 237 ms 237 ms 237 ms if-12-0-0-819.core4.SQN-SanJose.as6453.net [216.6.30.37]

10 233 ms 233 ms 233 ms Vlan45.icore1.SQN-SanJose.as6453.net [216.6.30.30]

11 238 ms 239 ms 238 ms ix-13-31.icore1.SQN-SanJose.as6453.net [209.58.116.38]

12 305 ms 305 ms 353 ms nyk-bb2-link.telia.net [80.91.254.176]

13 350 ms 350 ms 350 ms kbn-bb2-link.telia.net [80.91.249.28]

14 352 ms 352 ms 353 ms s-bb2-link.telia.net [213.248.65.165]

15 372 ms 370 ms 371 ms mow-b2-link.telia.net [80.91.253.219]

16 369 ms 369 ms 369 ms mow-m9-i2-link.telia.net [80.91.253.231]

17 371 ms 370 ms 375 ms zenon-103945-mow-b2.c.telia.net [213.248.78.178]

18 389 ms 385 ms 377 ms jam-l3sw-2-vlan404.msk.zenon.net [62.113.112.68]

19 375 ms 374 ms 375 ms 195.2.72.149

Trace complete.

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tracert -w 20000 www.163.com

Tracing route to www.cache.gslb.netease.com [61.135.253.13]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 49 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1

2 42 ms 39 ms 40 ms mx-ll-58.147.0-74.static.tttmaxnet.com [58.147.0.74]

3 32 ms 33 ms 32 ms mx-ll-58.147.0-73.static.tttmaxnet.com [58.147.0.73]

4 3527 ms 3 ms 374 ms bt-229-010.bta.net.cn [202.106.229.10]

5 33 ms 34 ms 32 ms mx-ll-58.147.0-69.static.tttmaxnet.com [58.147.0.69]

6 237 ms 236 ms 237 ms 61.19.15.205

7 240 ms 239 ms 239 ms 61.19.9.33

8 231 ms 234 ms 232 ms 61.19.9.30

9 463 ms 463 ms 463 ms 202.47.253.254

10 141 ms 141 ms 185 ms 220.73.154.205

11 6834 ms 49 ms 58 ms 61.49.41.22

12 186 ms 186 ms 186 ms 219.158.33.1

13 190 ms 187 ms 187 ms 219.158.4.181

14 * * 184 ms 123.126.0.130

15 * 1640 ms 48 ms glgate136-p7-3.kornet.net [211.48.63.93]

16 188 ms 185 ms 185 ms 61.148.157.66

17 188 ms 185 ms 185 ms bt-229-010.bta.net.cn [202.106.229.10]

18 187 ms 189 ms 187 ms 61.49.41.22

19 187 ms 192 ms 187 ms 61.135.253.13

Trace complete.

[AllgemeineSS]

I can confirm - at day, evening - this crappy TTT is unusable. I cant connect to most of my sites in Holland, Germany, and in Russia.

root#:$ traceroute mail.zmail.ru

traceroute to mail.zmail.ru (195.2.72.149), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets

1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 2.041 ms 1.195 ms 1.080 ms

2 mx-ll-58.147.0-94.static.tttmaxnet.com (58.147.0.94) 12.739 ms 9.266 ms 8.693 ms

3 mx-ll-58.147.0-93.static.tttmaxnet.com (58.147.0.93) 8.591 ms 8.292 ms 8.334 ms

4 * * *

5 mx-ll-58.147.0-66.static.tttmaxnet.com (58.147.0.66) 36.770 ms 8.060 ms 8.027 ms

6 mx-ll-58.147.0-134.static.tttmaxnet.com (58.147.0.134) 42.816 ms 65.755 ms 49.312 ms

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8 * * if-14-0-0-954.core1.TV2-Tokyo.as6453.net (209.58.96.98) 4802.397 ms

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[Pib]

Goes to show/support how important an Internet Service Provider's (ISP) connections/bandwidth to the "outside world" is. While an ISP might promote a fast DSL speed like 3Mb to 16Mb that is only the "hopeful" connection speed between your residence and the ISP's server/initial connection point a few kilometers away. After the ISP's server, they may have a small pipe leading to the rest of the internet world.