When I first got WoW a few years ago it was only 3 hops to the internet, this past year ive noticed in a traceroute a minimum of 10 hops to the internet. And I see they are consulting/outsourcing to knology??? Tried looking into that company, their company objective mentions nothing about consulting or hosting services just education in the data shaping field..
To do a traceroute in windows hit start, type in: cmd
ress enter.. So I typed in my instance: tracert uchicago.edu
Tracing route to uchicago.edu [128.135.13.114]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms DD-WRT [192.168.1.1]
2 * * * Request timed out. *CABLE MODEM*
3 11 ms 12 ms 11 ms dynamic-76-***.knology.net [76.73.**.**]
4 11 ms 24 ms 21 ms 76-73-170-108.knology.net [76.73.170.108]
5 12 ms 12 ms 11 ms 76-73-164-137.knology.net [76.73.164.137]
6 68 ms 10 ms 11 ms 76-73-164-125.knology.net [76.73.164.125]
7 15 ms 12 ms 11 ms 76-73-164-121.knology.net [76.73.164.121]
8 12 ms 12 ms 10 ms 76-73-164-109.knology.net [76.73.164.109]
9 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms 76-73-164-105.knology.net [76.73.164.105]
10 14 ms 10 ms 12 ms 76-73-164-65.knology.net [76.73.164.65]
11 12 ms 15 ms 15 ms xe-11-2-1.edge1.Chicago2.Level3.net [4.71.248.24
5]
12 15 ms 14 ms 15 ms vl-3509-ve-123.ebr1.Chicago2.Level3.net [4.69.15
8.210]
13 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms ae-6-6.ebr1.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.69.140.189]
14 12 ms 15 ms 15 ms ae-11-51.car1.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.69.138.3]
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 14 ms 15 ms 14 ms uchicago.edu [128.135.13.114]
Trace complete.
11th HOP I FINALLY hit the public net?? Seems a bit excessive routing. Also seems to me that majority of the latency lays in wow/knologys routing.
Anyone else have this routing cluster f**k??
Anyone know anything about knology?
Anyone else knows when faster tiers are coming to wow??