From our experience and smoke pings on Verizon's alternet, they ALWAYS have issues. Which is why we moved away from them.
-Bret On Mar 1, 2011, at 9:47 AM, Chris Tracy wrote: >>> Seeing some packet loss via Cogent. >>> www.internetpulse.net seems to be lighting up. >> I'm noticing it too. POP in Grand Rapids, circuit to Detroit. Packet loss, >> but no total loss of connectivity. > > Interesting. I began to notice trouble reaching google about a week ago from > 2 different east-cost Verizon FiOS lines -- one business and one residential > -- but my problem appears to be congestion at the AS701 <> AS15169 border. > I'm not noticing any loss across AS701. > > These problems began around 9am Eastern on Saturday Feb 19th -- see attached > smokeping graph. You can see the diurnal pattern in the loss -- packet loss > peaks between 9a-4p ET. Of course, I can get toipv6.google.com without any > loss at all via my HE tunnel! > > In both cases, mtr shows ~50% loss beginning at google-gw.customer.alter.net > (152.179.50.62), the first hop in AS15169. It's clear that I must be losing > more ICMP than TCP packets given that google webpages come up fairly quickly, > but youtube videos hang ever since this started. > > Anybody else seeing this? > > Thanks, > -Chris > > -- > Chris Tracy <ctr...@es.net> > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory > > <Screen shot 2011-03-01 at Mar 1 11.44.55 AM.jpg>
