Can you bypass a bad hop?

~>Dg<~ · 6 May 2007 at 21:19

Well this to do with my online gaming my ping has increased quite a bit over last few weeks :mad:

and just done a tracert and i think i found the thing thats causing it. how do i bypass the offending ip/hop while connecting to my beloved server. how do you or can you make the journey as short as possible for better ping?

dangermouse · 6 May 2007 at 22:02

Not unless you control the routers between you and the destination host. Which most likely are ISP routers, so you will probably just have to put with it, or use a different server and hope/check that it takes a different route.

~>Dg<~ · 6 May 2007 at 22:21

thanks for reply.if i asked my isp to change my ip would that work?

Teal · 6 May 2007 at 22:29

No, changing your IP address will not help.

If you've identified the hop causing the problem then report that to your ISP, what they do will depend upon who they are but it may help.

If it is one of their routers it is easier to fix of course.

~>Dg<~ · 6 May 2007 at 22:35

well im with aol and the offending ip is a tiscali one, are tiscali part of aol?

Teal · 6 May 2007 at 22:55

Post a tracert so we can see the details, but no, as far as I know AOL don't use Tiscali so it is more likely to be associated with the server you are trying to reach, but that will be easy to see with the tracert details.

fumbles · 7 May 2007 at 01:24

Remote proxy server will fix it, but really you cannot do anything about it except wait till it gets better.

bigredshark · 7 May 2007 at 14:08

To be honest, I work for an ISP, if you wanted to get this sorted then you'd need to speak to someone like me within your ISP. But, I don't like talking to end users and if it was just one user complaining and nothing was really broken, it'd be rapidly filed in the tray labeled 'don't care'

I'd just use a different server or wait until it gets better, you could speak to your ISP but they won't play with their routing for fun so you've little chance of getting anything done.