For the past 4-5 days, I've been working with various Verizon techs to resolve a high latency/slow Internet problem. Their ultimate solution was that they have no idea why it's doing this, and since I can reach a few websites at full speed and their line tests show I'm operating at full provisioning, it's not their problem. "We can't control traffic outside of our networks." Well, my results are also showing problems with the Verizon servers, so I would think they should be more concerned. Most websites, however, exhibit the problem. So I'm stuck, looking for a better answer than "go away." Maybe some of you are experiencing a similar problem with latency or sporadic speeds?
My provisioning is 20M/5M. I'm in the L.A. area. (In the traceroutes below, I masked Hop 2 for privacy.)
I've experienced this problem with 2 computers (1 desktop, 1 laptop), both using Ethernet ports; one test using wireless on the laptop. I've plugged the router directly into the ONT coax to eliminate my house wiring as the culprit. Westell 9100EM router.
A few websites seem okay, and speedtest.net results always show provisioning at full speed to the L.A. server, but the problem persists when using the non-L.A. server. With speakeasy.net, even the L.A. server exhibits the problem. The latency gets worse as the night goes on, sometimes over 1000ms for some traceroute hops. In the morning, it seems to be back to normal.
Thanks for any help....
Jeff
Some examples...
In the past 2 mornings, I've had good results:
Speed Test (speakeasy.net, Los Angeles): ~ 19798K/4581K
Speed Test (speedtest.net, Los Angeles): always shows full provisioning ~19.74M, 4.56M, 19ms ping
Speed Test (speedtest.net, Dallas): ~ 19.81M/4.37M, 49ms ping
Tracing route to www.l.google.com [74.125.19.104]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms myrouter.home [192.168.1.1]
2 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms xxxx.xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx.verizon-gni.net [173.55.xxx.xxx]
3 8 ms 10 ms 9 ms G4-0-6-1142.LSANCA-LCR-11.verizon-gni.net [130.81.140.122]
4 11 ms 53 ms 11 ms so-4-3-0-0.LAX01-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net [130.81.29.244]
5 13 ms 12 ms 12 ms 0.so-1-2-0.XL3.LAX15.ALTER.NET [152.63.10.133]
6 12 ms 11 ms 13 ms 0.ge-7-0-0.BR2.LAX15.ALTER.NET [152.63.116.157]
7 9 ms 12 ms 42 ms xe-11-0-0.edge1.SanJose3.level3.net [4.68.111.249]
8 14 ms 12 ms 17 ms ae-63-60.ebr3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.69.144.52]
9 21 ms 34 ms 35 ms ae-2.ebr3.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.69.132.9]
10 26 ms 19 ms 19 ms ae-83-83.csw3.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.69.134.234]
11 21 ms 22 ms 22 ms ae-3-89.edge1.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.68.18.142]
12 23 ms 22 ms 23 ms GOOGLE-INC.edge1.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.79.43.146]
13 29 ms 34 ms 22 ms 209.85.251.98
14 20 ms 23 ms 19 ms nuq04s01-in-f104.1e100.net [74.125.19.104]
In the past 4-5 evenings, I've had poor results:
Speed Test (speakeasy.net, Los Angeles): ~ 2441K/194K
Speed Test (speedtest.net, Los Angeles): always shows full provisioning ~19.74M, 4.56M, 19ms ping
Speed Test (speedtest.net, Dallas): ~ 8.28M/1.22M, 49ms ping
Tracing route to www.l.google.com [74.125.19.105]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms myrouter.home [192.168.1.1]
2 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms xxxx.xxxxx-xxxxx-xxx.verizon-gni.net [173.55.xxx.xxx]
3 531 ms 502 ms 514 ms G4-0-6-1242.LSANCA-LCR-12.verizon-gni.net [130.81.140.162]
4 519 ms 506 ms 530 ms so-4-3-0-0.LAX01-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net [130.81.29.246]
5 563 ms 564 ms 553 ms 0.so-1-2-0.XL4.LAX15.ALTER.NET [152.63.10.125]
6 577 ms 544 ms 524 ms 0.ge-6-1-0.BR2.LAX15.ALTER.NET [152.63.116.153]
7 477 ms 469 ms 459 ms xe-10-1-0.edge1.LosAngeles9.Level3.net [4.68.63.129]
8 11 ms 17 ms 19 ms ae-93-90.ebr3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.69.144.244]
9 515 ms 559 ms 536 ms ae-2.ebr3.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.69.132.9]
10 20 ms 19 ms 19 ms ae-83-83.csw3.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.69.134.234]
11 524 ms 499 ms 544 ms ae-3-89.edge1.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.68.18.142]
12 490 ms 479 ms 464 ms GOOGLE-INC.edge1.SanJose1.Level3.net [4.79.43.146]
13 24 ms 22 ms 32 ms 209.85.251.98
14 23 ms 22 ms 489 ms nuq04s01-in-f105.1e100.net [74.125.19.105]