High Ping/Latency to Singapore (230ms+)

[Ahri]

Hi.

I play some games on, and near servers in Singapore/Sri Lanka. A few weeks ago, my ping was a stable 140-150ms, which was acceptable. After a computer restart due to windows updates, I've been getting pings of over 230ms.

My other question is, why is my initial ping to my modem so high? It's a wired connections, and If I ping just my modem, it shows the normal >1ms. I tried trace routing to 8.8.8.8 which is a google DNS, and it showed similar ping as the trace route below.

Can anyone help explain why?

tracert 209.58.164.107

Tracing route to 209.58.164.107 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 17 ms 99 ms 99 ms BigPond.BigPond [10.0.0.138]
2 29 ms 29 ms 29 ms 172.18.212.13
3 29 ms 29 ms 29 ms 172.18.69.149
4 29 ms 29 ms 30 ms bundle-ether4.cha-edge901.brisbane.telstra.net [
203.50.44.40]
5 29 ms 29 ms 32 ms bundle-ether6.cha-core4.brisbane.telstra.net [20
3.50.11.140]
6 45 ms 44 ms 44 ms bundle-ether20.ken-core10.sydney.telstra.net [20
3.50.11.178]
7 45 ms 44 ms 42 ms bundle-ether1.oxf-gw10.sydney.telstra.net [203.5
0.6.97]
8 43 ms 43 ms 48 ms bundle-ether1.sydo-core04.sydney.reach.com [203.
50.13.94]
9 44 ms 57 ms 43 ms i-0-1-0-47.sydo-core03.bi.telstraglobal.net [202
.84.222.61]
10 205 ms 202 ms 203 ms unknown.telstraglobal.net [202.84.138.41]
11 236 ms 233 ms 231 ms unknown.telstraglobal.net [202.84.137.214]
12 231 ms 230 ms 231 ms i-0-2-0-8.istt-core02.bi.telstraglobal.net [202.
84.225.214]
13 237 ms 240 ms 235 ms unknown.telstraglobal.net [210.176.138.34]
14 234 ms 240 ms 235 ms te-0-0-2-0.cr02.sin-11.sg.leaseweb.net [103.254.
152.199]
15 231 ms 232 ms 235 ms et-50.ce01.sin-11.sg.leaseweb.net [103.254.152.2
01]
16 260 ms 259 ms 259 ms 209.58.176.65
17 258 ms 257 ms 256 ms 209.58.164.107

Trace complete.

Here's my trace route to that google server I mentioned:

Tracing route to google-public-dns-a.google.com [8.8.8.8]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 53 ms 99 ms 99 ms BigPond.BigPond [10.0.0.138]
2 29 ms 29 ms 29 ms 172.18.212.13
3 29 ms 30 ms 29 ms 172.18.69.149
4 30 ms 29 ms 30 ms bundle-ether4.cha-edge901.brisbane.telstra.net [
203.50.44.40]
5 30 ms 29 ms 32 ms bundle-ether6.cha-core4.brisbane.telstra.net [20
3.50.11.140]
6 44 ms 43 ms 44 ms bundle-ether20.ken-core10.sydney.telstra.net [20
3.50.11.178]
7 42 ms 43 ms 42 ms bundle-ether1.ken-edge903.sydney.telstra.net [20
3.50.11.173]
8 41 ms 42 ms 41 ms 72.14.212.22
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 42 ms 43 ms 42 ms 74.125.37.154
11 43 ms 44 ms 44 ms 66.249.94.237
12 41 ms 42 ms 41 ms google-public-dns-a.google.com [8.8.8.8]

Trace complete.

[343GuiltySpark]

There is an issue with the cable from perth to Singapore, this has caused increased latency as the trafic is routed differently.

Its weird that the latency to your modem is so high on the trace route but not on the ping

[Ahri]

Is there a way to track this issue with the cable? I know something happened awhile ago, sometime late 2016, early 2017 I believe, but that was fixed? My ping was high then too.

Found it! http://status.vocus.com.au/view-incident.aspx?IncidentID=217

But I haven't heard anything like this recently.

[343GuiltySpark]

The cable regularly seems to have issues. A new and much higher capacity one is currently being constructed.

[KerrodWW]

There was another thread a couple days ago with the same issue. Looks like there's a more recent incident here that's likely causing the issue:

http://status.vocus.com.au/view-incident.aspx?IncidentID=428

https://crowdsupport.telstra.com.au/t5/Home-Broadband/Massive-increase-in-latency-to-Singapore/m-p/7...

[343GuiltySpark]

Thats one