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Re: Verizon Issues? East Coast US

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bret Palsson)
Tue Mar 1 14:06:20 2011

From: Bret Palsson <bret@getjive.com>
In-Reply-To: <D838E58A-171B-4D4D-9952-8B46DCB48260@es.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 12:05:07 -0700
To: Chris Tracy <ctracy@es.net>
Cc: 'NANOG' <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

=46rom 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.
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> 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.
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> 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!
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> 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.
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> Anybody else seeing this?
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> Thanks,
> -Chris
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> --
> Chris Tracy <ctracy@es.net>
> Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
> Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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> <Screen shot 2011-03-01 at Mar 1 11.44.55 AM.jpg>



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