Weathers Wrote:snorkelbill Wrote:It's a little different. It means you're having a crappy internet experience!
The 3 hops after your machine are either swamped with traffic or dying a slow, horrible death. Either way, your traffic is now getting lost to them on all 3 tests, rather than just 1 or 2. Basically it means you're having to retransmit a lot of your data for it to get through. Think "can you hear me now?"
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Is there anything I can do about it? Imagine you're talking to a 5 year old.
Depends... Is this in your house on your equipment, or is this a work connection? I would guess work, based on the IP addresses.
If it's work, you can check with your administrators and ask them about it. You don't have to mention awakenedlands, I'm sure you can find some other site you would normally use, such as google.com, cnn.com or leapfrog.com.
I'm on Comcast too and have no problems reaching there. Our routes are different right up to your hop #6. From there on we share the same route, so I'd say it's got to do with the routing getting TO Cox.
I didn't check it yesterday when we were initially talking about this, but you can check the status of the different "hand offs" between the top tier internet providers at:
http://www.internetpulse.net/
Right now eveything looks good with a little latency (lag) in one of them. Basically if something is hightlighted red or yellow, it's not a good thing.
Sorry for the delay in responding. This forum software hates me and usually marks nothing as read, so I have to click the "mark all posts read" button when I'm done reading everything. Think I did that and missed these posts.
@Zen: Your theory is probably pretty close to correct. If there are/were routers down then the traffic gets rerouted and could seriously congest otherwise fine routes. For the 5 year olds, think Detour off the Interstate/Freeway to a back street, then back onto the interstate. Doesn't matter how quickly the traffic is flowing on either side of the Detour, EVERYTHING gets slowed down when it gets to that detour.
@buuddha: Yours looked fine. Tiny hiccup on one of the hops, but those can naturally occur.
