Posted on 10/31/2009 12:47:11 PM PDT by Danae
Isn't this interesting....
I am on the west coast, in Oregon. And those who know me, know I have been doing a lot of writings in the last year that have been ...critical... of Obama to the say the very least. I have been investigating his British Birth, and making inquires at the Hawaiian Department of Health with UIPA requests.
Last night while playing an online game (WOW) my husband noticed his latency just shoot through the roof. From 71 to about 340 ms. After resetting the modem a couple of times, he got angry enough to call Verizon and sit on hold for a tech support person to figure out what was going on.
Well... it turns out that we have been re-routed to the East Coast as our main hub to the internet. Specifically in the area of Fredricksburg Virgina. Not to mention our upload and download rates are down to 1 meg from where it should be at 20 M/sec. Here is the interesting part, the Tech guy COULD NOT RE-SET IT EITHER. It keeps resolving to the East Coast router. Mr. Tech Guy had never seen that before and was embarrassed as to why it would be happening at all.
Verizon is looking into it, and says they will get back to us in 24 hours.
Koinkidink?
What do you think?
SIGINT
I have Quest DSL and sometimes it seems to be a bit slow. I thought Esculon only recorded the stuff and not slowed it down.
It’s just Verizon.
No conspiracy here, it’s just bad technical support.
Be glad you don’t use Comcast, they’re even worse.
Thats what I am thinkin. I got turned in LOL. Not like I wasn’t being overtly public or anything.... LOL
http://www.examiner.com/x-7715-Portland-Civil-Rights-Examiner
I used to have Comcast. Verizon is worse, by an order of magnitude.
Seriously, just to pay a bill or get a question answered or resolved can take two to three hours. Outta hand.
But this is different. The tech Guy tried to re-route us from his location, and COULD NOT do it. Thats what made my eyebrows go up.
Well... it turns out that we have been re-routed to the East Coast as our main hub to the internet. Specifically in the area of Fredricksburg Virgina. Not to mention our upload and download rates are down to 1 meg from where it should be at 20 M/sec. Here is the interesting part, the Tech guy COULD NOT RE-SET IT EITHER.Sounds like maybe a core network issue; maybe an upgrade or a not-so-graceful recovery from a major fault in the network somewhere. The temporary re-routing might be thottling the traffic/throughput down to a manageable size ...
Just depends I suppose. I am on the west coast, and we are getting routed to a hub in Virginia, that takes time, and its noticeable. If we were getting re-routed to something in Seattle or even Las Vegas, likely we never would have known. But we got re-routed with out our knowledge, usually that takes someone in Verizin headquarters to do that, and usually at a customer request, or the customer does it by doing a Hard Reset of their own Router. Neither of those things happened. So... why would we get switched, and where did the order come from to cause it to happen?
Inquiring suspicious minds want to know.
/tin-foil moment for at least 5 min. I need more coffee.
No reason for eyebrows to go up. It just means network wires are crossed, probably due to maintenance somewhere along the line.
Yep, that is the logical Tech explanation. And the guy looked into it, knowing that it had to be on their end. However, he could find no reason why that would happen. Afterall, there are a LOT of people in this neighborhood with Verizon FIOS. Funny how it would only be happening to one customer. And why the East coast which is bound to kill speed and through-put?
The guy was really embarrassed I guess because he could not answer any of those questions. Hubby knows the right ones to ask.
my favorite blog gets hits from some very interesting places, including dc and va.
I forgot.... from 20 Meg to 1 Meg..... yea, thats some throttling alright..... >.<
Which would be the most logical conclusion and one that I hope is right.
But, if that is the case, why would we be the only ones in the area with this problem? There are lots of customers of FIOS here...
Which one is that?
The guy was really embarrassed I guess because he could not answer any of those questions. Hubby knows the right ones to ask.There are some questions that only network engineering can answer; some guy at the tech desk isn't going to know the system's routing, architecture etc ... in some cases, there are only a couple people in the whole company that could answer those questions without making some phone calls ...
I forgot.... from 20 Meg to 1 Meg..... yea, thats some throttling alright..... >.<Destination specfic? Or all services?
Sounds like the feds.
Get a new carrier.
Anything is possible but for a moment ponder the following statement and rate it on the following scale:
1) That is so outrageous, I can’t believe anyone would even entertain that thought.
2) Interesting thought but I’ve never heard of anyone experiencing anything like it.
3) Wow, the last tech guy I spoke to didn’t know what he was talking about either.
And the sentence you are to rate is:
Just another incompetent tech adviser covering his own behind with lots of words that don’t help solve the problem.
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