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Rex_Nex

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Connection Issues
« on: October 12, 2012, 10:30:45 pm »

I'm with HughesNet satellite internet. My issue is that I cannot connect to certain websites while throttled. They'll try to load for a minute or two before going to "Connection timed out".

Why would this be? Things like logging into skype, google.com (and all branches of google), some of the forums I go to, etc. cannot be connected to while my ISP is throttling me. Would the ISP be blocking these sites? That makes no sense to me!

Does this sound like something I can fix on my end, or should I just call up hughesnet and ask what's up? It's very annoying having a select few services absolutely refuse to load.

If it's not the ISP blocking me, is it possible that my connection could be so slow that it won't link up with these services? Could it be a issue with my internet cache?

Edit: It's probably worth noting I have a similar issue with my other connection, this one from Verizon. It won't load anything to do with imgur.
« Last Edit: October 12, 2012, 10:52:24 pm by Rex_Nex »
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Re: Connection Issues
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2012, 04:15:18 am »

Try running cmd and running the following commands in it, see what happens and paste the results here (right-click, select all, right-click, it's now in the clipboard):
ping www.google.com
tracert www.google.com

(while you're being affected by the problems)
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Re: Connection Issues
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2012, 02:08:54 pm »

Sorry for the slow reply; spent a couple days offline and had a lot of bandwidth to burn through before I got throttled again.

Code: [Select]
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Users\s>ping www.google.com

Pinging www.google.com [74.125.133.104] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 74.125.133.104: bytes=32 time=769ms TTL=43
Reply from 74.125.133.104: bytes=32 time=948ms TTL=43
Reply from 74.125.133.104: bytes=32 time=726ms TTL=43
Reply from 74.125.133.104: bytes=32 time=995ms TTL=43

Ping statistics for 74.125.133.104:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 726ms, Maximum = 995ms, Average = 859ms

C:\Users\s>tracert www.google.com

Tracing route to www.google.com [74.125.133.104]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     2 ms     1 ms     1 ms  192.168.1.1
  2     3 ms     3 ms     2 ms  192.168.0.1
  3     4 ms    11 ms     2 ms  192.168.0.1
  4   984 ms   915 ms   730 ms  dpc6745128002.direcpc.com [67.45.128.2]
  5  1153 ms  1025 ms  1213 ms  dpc6745128003.direcpc.com [67.45.128.3]
  6   727 ms   824 ms  1188 ms  dpc6745128153.direcpc.com [67.45.128.153]
  7   939 ms  1142 ms  1218 ms  66.97.254.130
  8   853 ms  1131 ms   740 ms  ord1.dcn.indatelservices.com [216.176.4.45]
  9   820 ms  1209 ms   778 ms  google.indatelservices.com [216.176.4.58]
 10   912 ms   859 ms  1157 ms  209.85.254.120
 11   832 ms   690 ms   762 ms  72.14.237.108
 12   770 ms  1267 ms  1074 ms  209.85.241.22
 13   945 ms   734 ms   742 ms  209.85.241.27
 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 15   741 ms  1313 ms  1083 ms  ia-in-f104.1e100.net [74.125.133.104]

Trace complete.

C:\Users\s>
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Tellemurius

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Re: Connection Issues
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2012, 07:08:52 pm »

Hughsnet or any sat internet comes with the high cost of ping. I have seen customers running on 2000 ping. At this point theres nothing you can do other than hope for clear skies.

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Re: Connection Issues
« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2012, 03:46:27 am »

Its not really the ping thats bothering me, but this:

 13   945 ms   734 ms   742 ms  209.85.241.27
 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 15   741 ms  1313 ms  1083 ms  ia-in-f104.1e100.net [74.125.133.104]

I suppose that could be a side effect of high ping, but my ping is high regardless of whether I'm throttled, and this never happens to me when I'm not.
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Re: Connection Issues
« Reply #5 on: October 21, 2012, 04:29:35 am »

Its not really the ping thats bothering me, but this:

 13   945 ms   734 ms   742 ms  209.85.241.27
 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 15   741 ms  1313 ms  1083 ms  ia-in-f104.1e100.net [74.125.133.104]

I suppose that could be a side effect of high ping, but my ping is high regardless of whether I'm throttled, and this never happens to me when I'm not.
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Re: Connection Issues
« Reply #6 on: October 21, 2012, 10:50:43 am »

Its not really the ping thats bothering me, but this:

 13   945 ms   734 ms   742 ms  209.85.241.27
 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 15   741 ms  1313 ms  1083 ms  ia-in-f104.1e100.net [74.125.133.104]

I suppose that could be a side effect of high ping, but my ping is high regardless of whether I'm throttled, and this never happens to me when I'm not.
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Some hosts in the path don't respond to  pings/tracert packets, ever.  Here's the last half of my tracert for that and you can see that otherwise my delays are pretty reasonable:
 6    19 ms    17 ms    17 ms  12.250.28.6
 7    41 ms    15 ms    19 ms  209.85.254.120
 8    18 ms    17 ms    17 ms  72.14.237.133
 9    29 ms    27 ms    76 ms  209.85.241.22
10    29 ms    27 ms    27 ms  209.85.241.29
11     *        *        *     Request timed out.
12    28 ms    27 ms    27 ms  ia-in-f147.1e100.net [74.125.133.147]
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Re: Connection Issues
« Reply #7 on: October 22, 2012, 12:01:18 am »

hmm dns might be jacked up then. whats your settings?