Facebook experience with Mauritius Telecom

From: Ish Sookun <ish_at_hacklog.mu>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 18:42:46 +0400


Dear sir/madam,

I am a subscriber of My.T 100M. I am connected to the Mauritius Telecom
router through WiFi. I noticed that www.facebook.com is taking more time
than usual to load. The experience is similar across various devices.

A ping to www.facebook.com produces the following result:

PING star-mini.c10r.facebook.com (157.240.10.35): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 157.240.10.35: icmp_seq=0 ttl=50 time=400.585 ms
64 bytes from 157.240.10.35: icmp_seq=1 ttl=50 time=405.211 ms
64 bytes from 157.240.10.35: icmp_seq=2 ttl=50 time=406.535 ms
64 bytes from 157.240.10.35: icmp_seq=3 ttl=50 time=367.601 ms
64 bytes from 157.240.10.35: icmp_seq=4 ttl=50 time=412.168 ms
64 bytes from 157.240.10.35: icmp_seq=5 ttl=50 time=367.648 ms
64 bytes from 157.240.10.35: icmp_seq=6 ttl=50 time=450.235 ms
64 bytes from 157.240.10.35: icmp_seq=7 ttl=50 time=367.075 ms
64 bytes from 157.240.10.35: icmp_seq=8 ttl=50 time=743.723 ms
64 bytes from 157.240.10.35: icmp_seq=9 ttl=50 time=577.906 ms
--- star-mini.c10r.facebook.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 367.075/449.869/743.723/114.389 ms

I pinged www.google.com and the result is:

PING www.google.com (74.125.230.50): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 74.125.230.50: icmp_seq=0 ttl=58 time=40.248 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.230.50: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=40.883 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.230.50: icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=40.738 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.230.50: icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=40.986 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.230.50: icmp_seq=4 ttl=58 time=40.267 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.230.50: icmp_seq=5 ttl=58 time=40.846 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.230.50: icmp_seq=6 ttl=58 time=40.840 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.230.50: icmp_seq=7 ttl=58 time=41.358 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.230.50: icmp_seq=8 ttl=58 time=40.934 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.230.50: icmp_seq=9 ttl=58 time=40.842 ms
--- www.google.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 40.248/40.794/41.358/0.311 ms

I pinged www.theguardian.com and the result is:

PING guardian.map.fastly.net (151.101.173.111): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 151.101.173.111: icmp_seq=0 ttl=57 time=49.303 ms
64 bytes from 151.101.173.111: icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=47.821 ms
64 bytes from 151.101.173.111: icmp_seq=2 ttl=57 time=47.877 ms
64 bytes from 151.101.173.111: icmp_seq=3 ttl=57 time=47.443 ms
64 bytes from 151.101.173.111: icmp_seq=4 ttl=57 time=47.386 ms
64 bytes from 151.101.173.111: icmp_seq=5 ttl=57 time=46.576 ms
64 bytes from 151.101.173.111: icmp_seq=6 ttl=57 time=48.024 ms
64 bytes from 151.101.173.111: icmp_seq=7 ttl=57 time=47.867 ms
64 bytes from 151.101.173.111: icmp_seq=8 ttl=57 time=47.477 ms
64 bytes from 151.101.173.111: icmp_seq=9 ttl=57 time=46.875 ms
--- guardian.map.fastly.net ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 46.576/47.665/49.303/0.700 ms

Can Mauritius Telecom do something to improve my Facebook experience?

Regards,

Ish Sookun
Received on Fri May 19 2017 - 14:43:07 PST

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