Sly
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join:2004-02-20
Johnson City, TN
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Re: High ping times to sprintlink.net
Waaay back before Sprint came to town it was United Telephone. Bell South is the only other company close to here but they don't go past Knoxville (72 miles away). |
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davoice
join:2000-08-12
Saxapahaw, NC | reply to Sly
Ahh... you're just barely across the border. Guess they just backhauled everything back to NC since that's the closest thing to that market. Who was your local telco before Sprint took over? Was it Centel?
}Davoice |
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Sly
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Johnson City, TN
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said by davoice  :Umm... that's interesting... your location in your BBR profile says Johnson City, TN... however, your tracert tells me you're somewhere in central NC and that you're connected through the Rocky Mount, NC backhaul. That's strange... I'm in JC Tennessee. Why whould it be showing my first hop in North Carolina?
I just did a speed test and I'm only getting 320kb/s on my 1.5Mb connection. 
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davoice
join:2000-08-12
Saxapahaw, NC
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Umm... that's interesting... your location in your BBR profile says Johnson City, TN... however, your tracert tells me you're somewhere in central NC and that you're connected through the Rocky Mount, NC backhaul.
What you're seeing is periodic loading issues in the Rocky Mount uplink to the internet. They've been popping up on occasion. Usually during peak periods.
Here's mine at the moment - 9:34pm EST, 11/20/2006:
2 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms nc-76-0-144-1.dhcp.embarqhsd.net [76.0.144.1]
3 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms crncrcmt03 [69.69.52.210]
4 239 ms 239 ms 238 ms sl-gw9-rly-6-0.sprintlink.net [160.81.19.1]
5 225 ms 224 ms 216 ms sl-bb23-rly-3-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.14.37]
6 204 ms 199 ms 199 ms sl-bb21-dc-13-0-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.9.214]
7 178 ms 172 ms 165 ms sl-st21-ash-10-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.20.148]
I know Embarq has been working on plans for the future backbone connections on their network. Don't know exactly which links they've been working on.
This is partly a Sprintlink issue - not enough backhaul at this particular uplink to carry the load. And it's partly an Embarq issue - for not buying more backhaul from Sprint (or someone else).
BUT... Don't expect any major changes anytime soon. Embarq's stated engineering guideline is anything under 400ms is acceptable. Might not be palatable to you as a gaming customer but that's what you bought.
Remember, *all* consumer internet connections are a "best effort" service. If you expect service guarantees, go buy something else. Oh yeah that's right... everyone thinks a $50 connection is supposed to always perform the same as a $500 business grade connection. :uhh:
}Davoice |
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