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I am plugged directly into my TWC cable modem box. My next hop after that box gets 30-60% packet loss and wildly varying latency.
This is me tracerouting my next hop with TWC
nathan@citadel:~$ traceroute 72.229.48.1
traceroute to 72.229.48.1 (72.229.48.1), 64 hops max
1 72.229.48.1 (72.229.48.1) 1021.072ms * 10.697ms
This is my TWC supplied DNS server
traceroute to 209.18.47.61 (209.18.47.61), 64 hops max
1 * * 72.229.48.1 (72.229.48.1) 81.944ms
2 24.168.135.205 (24.168.135.205) 50.981ms 12.478ms 12.994ms
3 24.29.157.78 (24.29.157.78) 17.000ms 13.479ms 11.836ms
4 184.152.112.73 (184.152.112.73) 16.923ms 16.138ms 16.297ms
5 72.229.48.1 (72.229.48.1) 186.728ms * *
6 24.29.104.145 (24.29.104.145) 13.248ms 12.491ms 32.059ms
7 24.29.103.71 (24.29.103.71) 32.171ms 12.679ms 12.678ms
8 * * *
9 * * *
10 * * *
11 * * *
12 * * *
13 209.18.47.61 (209.18.47.61) 11.688ms 24.168.135.205 (24.168.135.205) 29.522ms 209.18.47.61 (209.18.47.61) 1.048ms
4.2.2.2
Google DNS
nathan@citadel:~$ traceroute 8.8.8.8
traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 64 hops max
1 72.229.48.1 (72.229.48.1) 70.980ms * *
2 24.168.135.205 (24.168.135.205) 10.798ms 4.69.134.70 (4.69.134.70) 1.400ms 24.168.135.205 (24.168.135.205) 30.864ms
3 24.168.135.205 (24.168.135.205) 0.002ms 4.69.155.80 (4.69.155.80) 1.722ms 4.69.134.70 (4.69.134.70) 0.002ms
4 4.2.2.2 (4.2.2.2) 50.989ms 0.214ms 184.152.112.143 (184.152.112.143) 0.002ms
5 184.152.112.143 (184.152.112.143) 0.297ms 0.003ms 24.29.148.250 (24.29.148.250) 3.728ms
6 4.69.155.80 (4.69.155.80) 19.531ms 0.218ms 4.2.2.2 (4.2.2.2) 7.464ms
7 24.29.148.250 (24.29.148.250) 4.327ms 0.319ms 66.109.6.78 (66.109.6.78) 2.074ms
8 66.109.6.78 (66.109.6.78) 0.002ms 66.109.6.165 (66.109.6.165) 36.266ms 0.002ms
9 209.85.252.80 (209.85.252.80) 22.918ms 18.868ms 74.125.49.181 (74.125.49.181) 34.323ms
10 74.125.49.181 (74.125.49.181) 0.002ms 18.597ms 72.14.236.152 (72.14.236.152) 57.138ms
11 72.14.238.70 (72.14.238.70) 19.250ms 21.579ms 22.442ms
12 216.239.49.149 (216.239.49.149) 39.560ms 72.14.232.25 (72.14.232.25) 20.020ms 22.167ms
13 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 18.705ms 18.598ms *
Level3 DNS
nathan@citadel:~$ traceroute 4.2.2.2
traceroute to 4.2.2.2 (4.2.2.2), 64 hops max
1 * * 209.18.47.61 (209.18.47.61) 1985.770ms
2 24.168.135.205 (24.168.135.205) 29.501ms 209.18.47.61 (209.18.47.61) 1.039ms 24.168.135.205 (24.168.135.205) 68.069ms
3 24.168.135.205 (24.168.135.205) 0.213ms 0.003ms 209.18.47.61 (209.18.47.61) 1.365ms
4 24.168.135.205 (24.168.135.205) 11.575ms 0.228ms 184.152.112.143 (184.152.112.143) 2.635ms
5 184.152.112.143 (184.152.112.143) 0.002ms 0.204ms 24.29.148.250 (24.29.148.250) 1.831ms
6 184.152.112.143 (184.152.112.143) 1.271ms 0.003ms 24.29.148.250 (24.29.148.250) 6.762ms
7 24.29.148.250 (24.29.148.250) 0.844ms 0.227ms 184.152.112.143 (184.152.112.143) 0.003ms
8 107.14.19.153 (107.14.19.153) 6.486ms 0.217ms 0.003ms
9 24.29.148.250 (24.29.148.250) 0.002ms 0.001ms 66.109.6.28 (66.109.6.28) 5.457ms
10 66.109.6.78 (66.109.6.78) 0.866ms 0.002ms 4.69.156.30 (4.69.156.30) 0.217ms
11 66.109.6.78 (66.109.6.78) 0.003ms 1.830ms 0.003ms
12 66.109.6.78 (66.109.6.78) 0.208ms 66.109.6.165 (66.109.6.165) 2.016ms 0.208ms
13 66.109.6.28 (66.109.6.28) 2.301ms 1.047ms 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 61.507ms
14 4.2.2.2 (4.2.2.2) 12.345ms 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 6.898ms 4.2.2.2 (4.2.2.2) 5.999ms
Here is me tracerouting my IP externally from http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=trace&host=72.229.54.43
TraceRoute from Network-Tools.com to 72.229.54.43 [cpe-72-229-54-43.nyc.res.rr.com]
Hop (ms) (ms) (ms) IP Address Host name
1 5 5 5 24.153.208.145 rrcs-24-153-208-145.sw.biz.rr.com
2 5 7 7 71.40.237.84 rrcs-71-40-237-84.sw.biz.rr.com
3 8 7 7 24.175.49.7 agg10.dllatx10-cr02.texas.rr.com
4 12 7 7 24.175.49.8 agg21.hstntxl3-cr01.texas.rr.com
5 10 7 7 107.14.17.138 -
6 45 39 39 66.109.10.10 ae-5-0.cr0.dca10.tbone.rr.com
7 39 39 39 107.14.17.179 -
8 45 40 39 66.109.9.31 -
9 45 39 39 66.109.6.79 -
10 43 45 47 24.29.148.249 bun6-nycmnytg-rtr001.nyc.rr.com
11 40 40 40 184.152.112.142 bun116.nycmnys-rtr02.nyc.rr.com
12 Timed out Timed out Timed out -
13 Timed out Timed out 50 72.229.54.43 cpe-72-229-54-43.nyc.res.rr.com
Trace complete
Finally, here is the output of MTR to Google and level3 http://twitpic.com/c2k2r8 & http://twitpic.com/c2k36w
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