[outages] Cogent /ATT and Verizon Peering alternatives

[Rusty Hodge]

We are seeing lots of problems with our audio streaming traffic dropping lots of packets where our transit provider Cogent hands off to ATT & Verizon.

Right now, I'm seeing  43% packet loss

Cogent is blaming ATT/Verizon and says there is nothing they can do about it. We're the collateral damage.

Who else is having the same issue?

I threaten to cancel my service, Cogent says, "sorry to lose you as a customer", and go on their merry way.

Are other transit providers having issues peering / getting to ATT/Verizon? I need to know who to avoid.



traceroute to 71.252.251.1 (71.252.251.1), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  gi3-11.ccr01.sfo02.atlas.cogentco.com (38.104.130.89)  0.982 ms  0.985 ms  1.195 ms
 2  te0-0-0-28.ccr22.sfo01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.3.129)  0.531 ms te0-0-0-28.ccr21.sfo01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.3.121)  0.604 ms  0.636 ms
 3  be2165.ccr22.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.28.66)  2.277 ms be2164.ccr21.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.28.34)  1.806 ms  2.449 ms
 4  be2000.ccr21.sjc03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.6.106)  3.824 ms  2.504 ms  2.596 ms
 5  * * verizon.sjc03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.12.170)  94.373 ms
 6  * * *
 7  * * *
 8  L100.DLLSTX-VFTTP-64.verizon-gni.net (71.252.251.1)  135.242 ms  86.272 ms  86.231 ms