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Posted by DLR on December 26, 2006, 9:31 am
Timothy Daniels wrote:
> I'm in RoadRunner's S. Cal. area, in the socal.rr.com domain, and I
> find that tracerts to major servers (e.g. yahoo.com, google.com, rr.com,
> even to MIT.edu) show a lot of timeouts randomly scattered along the
> route to the servers. Following the route hop by hop and doing "ping -t"
> to each node, I find that pings to the first upstream node (having IP
> address 10.x.y.z) don't have any timeouts. But pings to the nodes
> beyond that, the first few of which have IP addresses 76.x.y.z in the
> socal.rr.com domain, start showing timeouts averaging about one
> every 6 to 8 pings. Does that mean that the dropped packets reflect
> congestion or a flaky router in the socal.rr.com domain?
>
EVERYTHING was congested yesterday. Even Apple's iTunes store was saying
"Sorry, we're busy, go away for a while".
I guess all those new iPods and iTunes gift cards were being used. And
who knows, maybe a few Zunes also. :)
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