Re: Sudden slowdown in connection speed
sjo11
Enthusiast - Level 2

Good news here,things seem to be much better at 2:30am in Rockland County,hope you guys are too,many thanks to everyone on the forum for keeping on this, Verizon also!And thanks for the work and updates raffim,coronasrgood and SteveRacer!

SJO

Re: Sudden slowdown in connection speed
SteveRacer66
Enthusiast - Level 2

Thanks sjo1!

It's now 3:45am EST in Rockland county, and I'm back to 25/5 to NYC and 16/5 to SeaTac.  I'm happy.  I hope it keeps.

Not sure I will ever know what the real problem was, but the bottom line is that "verizon" seems to have fixed it. 

I must say, although I've had my beefs with tech customer service in the past, this experience was excellent in terms of Verizon response.  Nobody asked me to reload an operating system or check if my computer was plugged in.

Granted, I'm a geek... (actually, I'm way older than term even existed in it's current meaning...  I don't chew lightbulbs or drive nails into my skull, but I also couldn't get a date with a fist full of $100 bills.   One customer service rep accused me of working for Verizon.  Nah, it's just so much of my life revolves around the technology I can't help but try and understand it...)

Anyhow, my point is that "Richard" and "Lorelei" were exemplary and I didn't have to fight my way to Tier 2, or 3.  There was no truck roll (although I do think the neighbors were a bit suspicious of me hanging out on the side of my house with a headlight and a laptop at wee hours in the morning) but I don't mind doing tracert sweeps at midnight if it gets me back.

I hope everybody else is fixed, not only my contemporaries in Rockland but also the DC, Cali, and elsewhere folks.

The forum is a great tool.  Sometimes we vent a bit (and I am no exception by far) but again, I have to admit although I spent some considerable effort, Verizon matched my aggression and now it seems all is well.

BUT, if you still have a problem, don't be shy to voice it.  Here and/or directly with Verizon.

best-

-steve

Re: Sudden slowdown in connection speed
RSB3
Enthusiast - Level 1

Things started improving last night. Download speeds at the different speed testing sites, both domestic and in the UK both show 25/5 which is what I've asked for. Pings are back down, and dropped packets are back to normal compared to my original post.

I'd love to know what Verizon did to fix the problem.

In the meantime, Verizon was kind enough to send me a new router that I'll install over the weekend.

Here's to hoping this was all a bad dream, and a great future with FIOS.

Host Name                                                  IP Address        Hop    Ping Time   Ping Avg   % Loss    Pkts r/s   Ping best/worst
L100.NYCMNY-VFTTP-165.verizon-gni.net                      96.239.54.1       2      5ms         6ms        0%        102 / 102  4ms / 11ms
G0-11-3-7.NYCMNY-LCR-22.verizon-gni.net                    130.81.139.60     3      6ms         7ms        0%        102 / 102  5ms / 55ms
so-3-1-0-0.NY5030-BB-RTR2.verizon-gni.net                  130.81.199.12     4      9ms         21ms       0%        101 / 102  6ms / 83ms
0.so-0-0-0.XT2.NYC4.ALTER.NET                              152.63.17.21      5      6ms         12ms       0%        102 / 102  5ms / 70ms
TenGigE0-5-0-0.GW8.NYC4.ALTER.NET                          152.63.21.65      6      9ms         9ms        0%        102 / 102  7ms / 30ms
google-gw.customer.alter.net                               152.179.72.62     7      30ms        59ms       0%        101 / 102  20ms / 110ms
* Unknown Host *                                           209.85.255.68     8      10ms        11ms       0%        102 / 102  7ms / 58ms
* Unknown Host *                                           72.14.239.250     9      9ms                    100%      0 / 101
lga15s28-in-f3.1e100.net                                   74.125.226.195    10     8ms         8ms        0%        101 / 101  5ms / 13ms

Re: Sudden slowdown in connection speed
MOFD
Enthusiast - Level 2

As of 8:30 PM Friday, the Verizon speed test is showing normal (24-25 Mbps) download speeds here in MontCo Maryland.  Hopefully they will stay that way.  Thanks to Verizon for dealing with this issue!

Re: Sudden slowdown in connection speed
ssesf
Enthusiast - Level 2

I too am in MontCo Maryland. As others have researched, the problem seems to be in ALTER.NET hop point, creating very bad lag. It "seems" to have gone away for now, but that's what I've been saying for the past week at certain points. It always comes back the next day.

Here's hoping to it being fixed for good though...

Re: Sudden slowdown in connection speed
ssesf
Enthusiast - Level 2

Tracing route to 216.133.234.22 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms Wireless_Broadband_Router.home [192.168.1.1]
2 9 ms 5 ms 4 ms L100.WASHDC-VFTTP-123.verizon-gni.net [96.255.20
0.1]
3 9 ms 11 ms 6 ms G0-10-3-4.WASHDC-LCR-21.verizon-gni.net [130.81.
137.210]
4 11 ms 10 ms 9 ms so-12-1-0-0.RES-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net [130.81.
151.230]
5 12 ms 9 ms 11 ms 0.so-6-0-2.XL3.IAD8.ALTER.NET [152.63.36.233]
6 86 ms 85 ms 86 ms 0.so-7-0-0.XL3.LAX15.ALTER.NET [152.63.112.53]
7 164 ms 163 ms 164 ms POS6-0-0.GW3.LAX15.ALTER.NET [152.63.112.105]
8 87 ms 86 ms 83 ms internapGIGE-gw.customer.alter.net [157.130.236.
110]
9 88 ms 88 ms 89 ms border1.po1-20g-bbnet1.lax010.pnap.net [216.52.2
55.13]
10 ^C

Verizon... seriously. This is getting stupid now. It's been going on for a week and I really don't want to have to call up your tech support for them to run me through your optimization for over a couple of hours.

FIX ALTER.NET ALREADY PLEASE.

Re: Sudden slowdown in connection speed
smith6612
Community Leader
Community Leader

@ssesf wrote:

Tracing route to 216.133.234.22 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms Wireless_Broadband_Router.home [192.168.1.1]
2 9 ms 5 ms 4 ms L100.WASHDC-VFTTP-123.verizon-gni.net [96.255.20
0.1]
3 9 ms 11 ms 6 ms G0-10-3-4.WASHDC-LCR-21.verizon-gni.net [130.81.
137.210]
4 11 ms 10 ms 9 ms so-12-1-0-0.RES-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net [130.81.
151.230]
5 12 ms 9 ms 11 ms 0.so-6-0-2.XL3.IAD8.ALTER.NET [152.63.36.233]
6 86 ms 85 ms 86 ms 0.so-7-0-0.XL3.LAX15.ALTER.NET [152.63.112.53]
7 164 ms 163 ms 164 ms POS6-0-0.GW3.LAX15.ALTER.NET [152.63.112.105]
8 87 ms 86 ms 83 ms internapGIGE-gw.customer.alter.net [157.130.236.
110]
9 88 ms 88 ms 89 ms border1.po1-20g-bbnet1.lax010.pnap.net [216.52.2
55.13]
10 ^C

Verizon... seriously. This is getting stupid now. It's been going on for a week and I really don't want to have to call up your tech support for them to run me through your optimization for over a couple of hours.

FIX ALTER.NET ALREADY PLEASE.


Are you still seeing speed issues though? The alter.net (Verizon Business) router at hop 7 may in fact still be seeing issues and just has ICMP on lower priority, but that traceroute seems pretty clean the rest of the way. That latency is not too bad for taking a jump all the way to Los Angeles, CA from Washington DC.

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Re: Sudden slowdown in connection speed
MOFD
Enthusiast - Level 2

<sigh>  I thought the problem was fixed, but Hulu streams were back to their old stuttering ways this evening.  Verizon speed test shows 3Mbps download speeds.  Better than a few days ago, but still unacceptable, and not what I'm paying for.  Come on, Verizon - you guys certainly have to be seeing the problem yourselves.

Re: Sudden slowdown in connection speed
prisaz
Legend

Montgomery County Maryland! 75/35 that used to get 84/39.

Trouble here also. First time since 2005 I am not getting advertized up to speeds. Construction, Over Subscription, BPON areas finnaly overloaded?

Big Issues with speed test servers and or other issues?

09:53 9/23/12

Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done
SendBufferSize set to [261360]
running 10s outbound test (client to server) . . . . . 23.71Mb/s
running 10s inbound test (server to client) . . . . . . 6.87Mb/s
Information: Network Middlebox is modifying MSS variable
Server IP addresses are preserved End-to-End
Information: Network Address Translation (NAT) box is modifying the Client's IP address

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Re: Sudden slowdown in connection speed
SteveRacer66
Enthusiast - Level 2

My tech ticket was closed and I was told that the engineers tested everything 9/21 and everything was fine... the problem (if any) lies outside of the Verizon network ans is not Verizon's responsibility.

They also claimed alter.net had no business relationship with Verizon, and if I had a complaint I should contact whoever runs alter.net . . .  the rep refused to admit any of the dozens of trace routes I sent over the past week showed any problems.  She claimed they all completed (which they didn't) and if the trace route completes, that's "good enough" for Verizon.

My speeds have dropped again -- not nearly so bad, but the full advertised speed was fleeting and test results are back to being intermittant and unpredictable.

(sigh)