Is the U.S. Intarweb broken tonight?

Post #322,972 by Ashton 3/16/10 1:48:05 AM Reply	Is the U.S. Intarweb broken tonight? D/L'd FireFox 3.6 -- I use FF for CC pays, as the Big Banks don't seem to reliably grok Safari handshakes. Otherwise.. why switch? I Like Safari. Thought i'd try Speakeasy re below speed games; any diff. twixt 3.5 and 3.6(?) From here to: SF: 21.0/4.7 Mbps No change. NY: 5.28/3.86 W.T.F. ??? Dallas: 6.89/4.33 Chi: 7.20/2.79 D.C.: 6.12/4.23 . . . Safari: SF: 21.02/4.60 Others: similar to FFox above! Is this Comcast falling-back to tomato cans/piano-wire at the Nevada border or was there a minor meltdown on Long Lines?? (I called AOL HQ and asked when they were switching to the spare backbone. But they just said, "You're one of those IWETHEY-guys, are'ntcha?" and hung up.) So then, Hows Come ??? Knackered-in-Kenwood
Post #322,973 by Another Scott 3/16/10 7:22:07 AM Reply	Dunno. A few helpful sites. This morning to Speakeasy's SF site I'm getting 2.17/3.56, to their site DC I'm getting 8.83/3.74. I guess what's happening is that some packets are getting lost along the way and they're having to be retransmitted, killing the throughput. Internet Traffic Report (NA): http://www.internett....com/namerica.htm I don't see much out of the ordinary, though there was a ping glitch around 10:30 pm (time zone??). The index of 85 isn't great. Tracert (traceroute) lets you follow packets from your PC to its destination. WinMTR seems pretty good (http://winmtr.sourceforge.net/) on Windows; On OSX there are several options - http://support.lunar...bases/article/202 WinMTR of www.google.cn (Google in China) is giving me 188 ms ping times with 74% packet loss to the next-to-last hop. I think it's just slow unless the host you're going to is close by. HTH a little. Cheers, Scott.
Post #322,980 by Ashton 3/16/10 1:44:14 PM Reply	Duh,, forgot 1st line: Inet Traffic Report Didn't recall its extremely logical Site-name. Sheer sloth; mea culpa. That's the trouble with clever tools.. when you use them too often you find things that you would not LIke. That happen for no reason you can find, effortlessly. (Could this explain tea baggers?) And as you say, the graphs do not indicate anything strange at that time. Oddly too, today: Atlanta GA gets a 0 (100% packet loss.) Is Box messing with his Box-net again? (He also seems to be hammering Canada; that's bloody-well un(ex-) Patriotic innit? And I get 12.12/0.73 --> Atlanta just now,ergo; slow but not-quite-0 This stuff is just ephemeral and should not be pondered by amateurs. :-/ (Yes, had noticed the expectedly-convenient tools array within OS X; on one occasion it handily pointed out the source of some many UDP attempts (stealth mode) attempting to flummox firewall -- somewhere in China -- as well as noise on Comcast. Just fills up f/wall logs is all.) Thanks for the reminders (sans deserved sarcastic 2 X 4 to head.) Leaves with tail between legs..

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