Verizon FiOS → Facebook Latency

Has anyone else been witnessing awful lag when visiting Facebook the past week or so?

At night - latency when pinging the site is awful...

You are not alone. It's horrendous. Been driving me nuts.

Facebook has been extremely sluggish for me as well

No issues from this end.

1 7ms 5ms 5ms
2 7ms 5ms 5ms
3 8ms 7ms 8ms 130.81.29.2
4 10ms 7ms 8ms 152.63.34.73
5 10ms 9ms 8ms 4.68.62.133
6 10ms 10ms 8ms 4.69.149.146
7 10ms 7ms 8ms 4.53.112.58
8 10ms 7ms 8ms 204.15.20.120
9 10ms 10ms 10ms 74.119.76.186
10 10ms 7ms 8ms 74.119.76.127
11 10ms 7ms 8ms 69.63.189.16

The routing to FB almost changes constantly.

One second you'll be routed to the West Coast, the next to VA, and then back again.

Something is definitely amiss - not sure if within VZ's network or not.

Facebook has been bad performance wise for some time and not just from my home FiOS connection. Their server virtualization is massive and I think the shear size and volume of the Facebook environment is taking its toll on delivering to the desktop. So even if there is some routing issue somewhere, I don't believe that's the bottom line.

I don't know if it applies, but a poster in the Security forum stated that his traceroute to Facebook was going through China.

It's nice being at work However, FB is forbidden....

Someone is probally botnetting it.

I'm in MD and there is something severely wrong with ALTER.net hops, like maybe 1/4 or 1/2 of sites are being routed through a terrible ALTER hop that is causing random packet loss and random high latency ( > 300ms).

Is this much bouncing around normal?

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.1
  2     8 ms     6 ms     7 ms  L100.TAMPFL-VFTTP-115.verizon-gni.net [72.91.152
.1]
  3    10 ms     9 ms    11 ms  G5-0-1715.TAMPFL-LCR-07.verizon-gni.net [130.81.
131.204]
  4     9 ms     9 ms     9 ms  so-6-1-0-0.TPA01-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net [130.81
.29.240]
  5    22 ms    22 ms    21 ms  so-7-3-0-0.ATL01-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net [130.81
.19.30]
  6    38 ms    28 ms    28 ms  0.xe-7-1-0.BR3.ATL4.ALTER.NET [152.63.80.73]
  7    24 ms    23 ms    21 ms  xe-11-2-0.edge4.Atlanta2.Level3.net [4.68.62.17]
 
  8    26 ms    27 ms    30 ms  vlan52.csw2.Atlanta2.Level3.net [4.69.150.126]
  9    26 ms    27 ms    26 ms  ae-73-73.ebr3.Atlanta2.Level3.net [4.69.148.253]
 
 10    41 ms    44 ms    42 ms  ae-7-7.ebr3.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.134.21]
 11    76 ms    76 ms    77 ms  ae-3-3.ebr2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.69.132.77]
 
 12    86 ms    96 ms    87 ms  ae-6-6.ebr2.SanJose5.Level3.net [4.69.148.202]
 13    89 ms    88 ms    89 ms  ae-1-100.ebr1.SanJose5.Level3.net [4.69.148.109]
 
 14    88 ms    86 ms    87 ms  4.69.148.138
 15    88 ms    87 ms    86 ms  ae-91-91.csw4.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.69.153.14]
 
 16    86 ms    87 ms    89 ms  ae-4-90.edge2.SanJose3.Level3.net [4.69.152.209]
 
 17    89 ms    88 ms   167 ms  FACEBOOK-IN.edge2.SanJose3.Level3.net [4.53.210.
14]
 18    93 ms    89 ms    91 ms  ae1.bb01.sjc1.tfbnw.net [74.119.76.23]
 19   132 ms   129 ms     *     ae10.bb01.prn1.tfbnw.net [74.119.76.69]
 20   132 ms   134 ms   132 ms  ae0.dr02.prn1.tfbnw.net [74.119.79.103]
 21     *      135 ms   134 ms  po1022.csw01b.prn1.tfbnw.net [74.119.79.55]
 22   135 ms     *      135 ms  www-13-01-prn1.facebook.com [69.171.224.14] 
 

Running a trace route to Facebook on my DSL connection shows similar routes; takes me to San Jose. I noticed one thing though, that if you were to use Facebook via an IPv6 Tunnel, it works wonderfully compared to going through the normal means of accessing the site. I confirmed this with a buddy of mine who just remoted into a Virtual Machine on my PC, which has Teredo running on it and logged into Facebook. It of course complained about him logging in from California suddenly (The Hurricane Electric tunnel that was chosen to route through was in San Jose), but it was a lot faster, that's for sure.

Try visiting www.v6.facebook.com and see if there's any difference, for those of us who have IPv6 tunnels running.

Crazy low latency, sheesh.

It's a .gov domain so I'd sort of expect it to be low, but thats very low.

Arg.... I didn't wipe the bitmap clean enough.... I'm sure this is a huge connection to the Internet.. I get ~20ms from just outside Baltimore, to Facebook.

It seems to have gotten much better the past 2 nights...

To back up your post about routing to China.
»www.itproportal.com/2011 ··· concern/

And the pathetic latency is back again...WTF - this is annoying.

23 Hops for me, with the last 8 being the slowest...