[Discuss] Verizon network issues

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 09/23/2011 08:41 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org [mailto:discuss-
>> bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Pugatch
>>
>> Anyone noticing any issues getting to or from Verizon's network?
> I am certainly experiencing a lot of "internet" in general issues lately.
> For the last couple of weeks.  Many users, even some who I don't support
> anymore, asking me for advice and how to deal with various network issues,
> which are clearly internet in general issues.
>
> I cannot say they're isolated to Verizon. 
> But it seems funny, either way, that his
> traffic would have to go to NYC and back.
>
> You know, it also seems funny, that my traffic from cictr.com to rr.com
> (Cambridge MA to Portland ME) is also going through NYC.
A couple of years ago, the Regus office we are in "upgraded" from their
4Mbps symmetrical to a higher speed bandwidth. All well and good, but
they also limited clients to 2Mbps symmetrical. Not only that, they
changed their backbone provider. Their former backbone provider was AT&T
that had a very low latency, at least in the traceroutes I did. Their
new backbone provider, Level 3, had terrible latency. All traffic went
through a Cincinnati hub, then to Chicago, and both places contributed
to the latency. At that point we talked to RCN. instead of signing an
agreement with RCN directly, (we would have had to get our corporate IT
involved) we had Regus  contract with RCN. At that time they had a
special where they would give us 2 DOCSIS 2 cable modems for the price
of one. They finally rolled out DOCSIS 3 in Newton this year and we
upgraded one of the modems to DOCSIS 3 (60Mbs/20Mbs) and Regus assigned
the second modem to another company who was complaining about the
horrible Regus network. Our facility here only has fibre for RCN, our
choices would be to pay Regus an exorbitant amount for additional
bandwidth (with big latencies), dedicated T1, or RCN. However, we still
pay Regus for 1 office line for a case if RCN goes down.

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