said by silvercat: [att=1]
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Well, it's 3:36 a.m., and speedtests (depending on which speedtest server is chosen) are over the 16 mbit mark (at least for Hamilton, and surprisingly, a couple of servers in Michigan -- Detroit and Dearborn). The ping times to those two American servers is good -- a lot better than to the Oakville, Toronto (Nexicom) and St. Catharines speedtest servers. So it says something about where the routing goes, through the backbone network. One thing that is certain, is that ikTel does not peer at Torix (also because the backbone is not connected to / at 151 Front Street). It seems to use the Cogent backbone network.
Did a traceroute to cbc.ca. The routing went to (presumably) Hamilton, then through Cogent to Buffalo, Albany, JFK, then through the Sprint network to Chicago, then through the Shawcable network to Monitoba (Montana ?), and then the last seen hop was to "rx0sh-cbc-radio-canada.mt.bigpipeinc.com". 22 hops in all.
This also leads me to believe that there was congestion of some kind, somewhere (because speeds are better now). Also, the kind of routing used may contribute to this.
yep its all cogent routed.
