Sunday, February 15, 2009

Time Warner Cable Internet = FAIL

Tracing route to www.l.google.com [74.125.45.99]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 8 ms 9 ms * cpe-76-173-176-1.socal.res.rr.com [76.173.176.1]

2 8 ms * 8 ms 76.167.1.129
3 12 ms 12 ms * tge4-2-0.tustca1-rtr1.socal.rr.com [76.167.14.145]
4 15 ms * 15 ms ae-5-0.cr0.lax30.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.64]
5 * 43 ms * ae-1-0.pr0.lax10.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.131]
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * 15 ms 216.239.46.180
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * 145 ms 72.14.232.215
10 91 ms 89 ms 94 ms 209.85.253.137
11 86 ms 91 ms 84 ms yx-in-f99.google.com [74.125.45.99]

This is how bad my internet connection has been for the last few days. For those of you who don't understand what that stuff means, each row contains 3 attempts to contact each router along the way from my apartment to www.google.com. Each asterisk is lost data, each number is successfully sent data (how many milliseconds it took for the answer to come back). We've had such ridiculously high packet loss that either the connection is totally gone or it's in a minimally functional state like this for the vast majority of the time.

Time
Warner
Sucks.

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