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| reply to iceman420 Re: [Connectivity] NorCal high pings, slow speeds
I'm no defender of Comcast. In fact, I'm just about ready to dump them and go back to more reliable Bellsouth DSL. However, it looks to me like the bottleneck in your traceroute is AT&T's network, not Comcast. And, it's the specific way you're being routed that's causing the difficulty. Here's my traceroute (from south Florida) to the same Yahoo IP:
traceroute to 216.109.112.135 (216.109.112.135), 64 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 c-65-34-24X-XX.hsd1.fl.comcast.net (65.34.24X.XX) 2.689 ms 1.359 ms 1.657 ms 2 10.246.32.1 (10.246.32.1) 11.644 ms 11.318 ms 15.163 ms 3 66.176.1.37 (66.176.1.37) 11.964 ms 10.916 ms 11.361 ms 4 66.176.1.93 (66.176.1.93) 12.398 ms 13.622 ms 13.420 ms 5 66.176.1.117 (66.176.1.117) 13.676 ms 13.536 ms 13.755 ms 6 12.119.94.21 (12.119.94.21) 13.693 ms 13.550 ms 14.513 ms 7 gbr4-p100.ormfl.ip.att.net (12.123.218.66) 40.308 ms 52.438 ms 40.012 ms 8 12.122.12.121 (12.122.12.121) 40.566 ms 42.395 ms 42.981 ms 9 tbr2-cl1.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.122.10.69) 41.396 ms 41.315 ms 42.054 ms 10 gar1-p390.ascva.ip.att.net (12.123.8.53) 42.239 ms 41.045 ms 38.244 ms 11 * * * 12 ae1.p400.msr1.dcn.yahoo.com (216.115.96.181) 47.623 ms vlan220-msr2.dcn.yahoo.com (216.115.96.165) 41.568 ms vlan200-msr1.dcn.yahoo.com (216.115.96.161) 41.944 ms 13 ge5-2.bas2-m.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.120.199) 39.974 ms ge9-3.bas2-m.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.120.155) 40.493 ms ge5-2.bas2-m.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.120.199) 40.359 ms 14 w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135) 41.166 ms 39.882 ms 41.310 ms |