Hi there. I am getting intermittent high ping and latency over the last 8 hours. I've restarted the hub twice and it improves for a while but comes back. Support want me to factory reset the hub. I dont see any evidence that there is a problem with the hub itself though. All web traffic is affected: pages slow to load, streams cut out, gaming impossible. I ran a trace and provided it to support. Here is a trace taken at a time when the symptoms were obvious, then a minute later, the symptoms went away, and i took another trace to the same destination, which now seems to be going a different route. So i am thinking, unhappy device along the route in the network is more likely than a hub problem?
Trace 1:
Tracing route to uk.www.bbc.co.uk.pri.bbc.co.uk [212.58.233.252]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 12 ms 20 ms 12 ms 192.168.1.254
2 1143 ms 1238 ms 1226 ms 172.16.17.64
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 1069 ms 1084 ms 1119 ms 31.55.187.180
5 1107 ms 984 ms 856 ms host213-121-192-128.ukcore.bt.net [213.121.192.128]
6 1029 ms 1077 ms 1117 ms peer3-et0-0-2.slough.ukcore.bt.net [62.172.103.228]
7 1161 ms 1181 ms 1002 ms 195.99.126.227
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 811 ms 855 ms 899 ms ae2.er02.lbh.bbc.co.uk [132.185.249.9]
10 1003 ms 1107 ms 1063 ms 132.185.252.130
11 1164 ms 1007 ms 833 ms 212.58.234.2
12 961 ms 1077 ms 1118 ms 212.58.233.252
Trace complete.
Trace 2:
Tracing route to uk.www.bbc.co.uk.pri.bbc.co.uk [212.58.233.254]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 7 ms 6 ms 5 ms 192.168.1.254
2 13 ms 13 ms 15 ms 172.16.17.64
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 42 ms 25 ms 33 ms 31.55.187.176
5 21 ms 20 ms 22 ms core1-hu0-2-0-5.southbank.ukcore.bt.net [195.99.127.28]
6 18 ms 19 ms 24 ms peer2-et0-0-2.slough.ukcore.bt.net [62.172.103.204]
7 25 ms 20 ms 20 ms 195.99.126.225
8 35 ms 21 ms 19 ms 132.185.249.12
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 21 ms 23 ms 21 ms ae2.er01.lbh.bbc.co.uk [132.185.249.7]
11 36 ms 28 ms 29 ms 132.185.252.126
12 21 ms 26 ms 21 ms 212.58.234.2
13 23 ms 20 ms 22 ms 212.58.233.254
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Trace 1, Number 2 is your default gateway so your hub could still be the cause of the problem.
If you're reluctant to do a factory reset because you don't want to be messing about setting everything up again afterwards then backup your configuration and restore it again later, it doesn't take that long and will at least eliminate your hub from the list of possible causes
good call thanks Les
The problem has stayed away now though. i wonder if someone kicked that gateway
Interestingly that gateway ending in .64 appeared to start playing up again today. I talked to 1st line on live chat and this time, they said that tests showed “congestion” on the network. Said it was being dealt with.