QUOTE(Prothero @ Jan 18 2022, 07:39 PM)
Hey bro & @saltykopi
FYI I have been following up with TIME CS from September 2020 already about their routing issue,
30+ email chains, but still haven't solved.
The culprit is their peer partner which is Telstra Network (From what I have discovered, in my case at least).
They are rerouting network unnecessarily instead of routing direct from point A to B.
Example : I want to connect from MY to Australia.
But what the routing did was MY - HK - Phillipines - Back to SG - Australia.
Which as a result create very high ping.
This issue happened starting around September 2021 I believe, before that was just fine.
Of course VPN works well, but who would want to pay for VPN when the ISP itself (TIME) should be able to give proper routing service.
Maybe if someone here working with TIME, please raise this issue, I as a TIME user feel cheated with this kind of routing service.
I'm really disappointed with TIME now.
I am using a program call "Open Visual Traceroute". You may find it on Github (github dot com/leolewis/openvisualtraceroute).
This shows routing is currently an absolute mess.
For example doing a traceroute to ionos.de (belonging to United Internet... so not small) you get major f*-ups in routing every other try:
1) going to Europe, then to the US, then back to Europe.
2) going to East Malaysia, Singapore, then US, then back to Malaysia, Singapore and then finally to Europe.
etc. etc.
You also more or less direct to Europe as well, but the majority of trys are like the bad ones above.
Same happens btw. with other ISP... e.g. mobile connections get routed similary...
So not sure if it is only TimeBroadband fault or something else is messed up.