Verizon FiOS → Re: [Northeast] High pings / bad routing...

Really Verizon? NYC based routers are now 100ms just off Alter.net.

Same for Alter to Cablevision/Lightpath. Garbage.

Honestly, its everything from Alter.net to the rest of the world thats affected in some way, some routes worse than others.

Tracing route to 208.110.241.138 over a maximum of 30 hops
 
  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  [192.168.1.1]
  2     3 ms     3 ms     2 ms  L.NYCMNY-VFTTP-.verizon-gni.net [71.1]
  3     8 ms     8 ms     8 ms  G0-1-1-4.NYCMNY-LCR-22.verizon-gni.net [130.81.146.204]
  4     5 ms     5 ms     6 ms  so-3-1-0-0.NY5030-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net [130.81.199.12]
  5     7 ms     7 ms     7 ms  0.xe-11-1-0.BR1.NYC1.ALTER.NET [152.63.4.237]
  6     *        *       99 ms  63-235-40-53.dia.static.qwest.net [63.235.40.53]
  7    99 ms    92 ms    93 ms  nyc-edge-04.inet.qwest.net [205.171.30.66]
  8    87 ms    86 ms    87 ms  65.119.250.214
  9    91 ms     *       87 ms  bb-nycmny83-jx9-01-ae0-0.core.centurytel.net [208.110.248.113]
 10    97 ms   109 ms    91 ms  bb-asbnvacy-jx9-01-ae1.0.core.centurytel.net [208.110.248.98]
 11   110 ms   132 ms     *     bb-asbnvacy-jx9-02-ae0.0.core.centurytel.net [208.110.248.118]
 12   115 ms   118 ms   119 ms  208.110.241.138
 
Trace complete.
 

What you you suggest Verizon do ? the tracert clearly shows its a sprint network that is increasing the reported ping time.

Verizon doesn't pick the path to the host, the host ( or its ISP ) broadcasts that path to it to take

Agreed. Up to hop 7 looks good(VZ network) from hop 8 and on it's all due to Qwest's network itself or the peering arrangement between VZ and Qwest not being sufficient enough. This is a good example of when Verizon is not the blame here.

Just a question, is my issue a Verizon issue or an issue with the server I play on and it's isp? My traceroute is on the last page, it is showing me being routed to Culpeper, VA and back up to NY which gives me a ping of around 80ms - 100ms to this particular server in NY.

The issue appears to be isolated to this one server or it's host. My ping to other NY/NJ servers is around 20ms but I am pinging close to 100 on this one server.