[Outages-discussion] [outages] Ping to Google 8.8.8.8

[Jeff Shultz]

On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 9:10 PM Mark Tinka <mark at tinka.africa> wrote:

>
> Completely agree.
>
> Unfortunately, most users tend to respect and trust the content services
> they use more than their ISP.
>
> We see it all the time, not just with ping, but even with our on-net
> service assurance systems vs. some far-away "speedtest.net" box.
>
> Mark.
>

We run our own speedtest.net box, so most of the time when someone on our
network goes there, they get our server. And if they don't - I've
discovered at least one customer using speedtest.net through their VPN and
connecting to a speed test server in Miami (we're on the west coast). I let
that customer go off to yell at the VPN provider for the amount they were
being throttled.

As for trusting the content services more than their ISP... well, the
Comcasts of the world have brought that upon themselves.

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