Skuzzy, have you heard anything (negative) about these guys?
http://www.nframe.com/The local electric utility has an offshoot now that offers fiber internet and cable to their customers. After a months long wait, we got connected last fall, and all was good. 3M/256K, cheaper than DSL, worked fine. The last few weeks, it's been poop. Pingplotter shows something like this-
Target Name: N/A
IP: 206.16.60.39
Date/Time: 11/11/2008 7:44:13 PM
1 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms 0 ms [192.168.1.1]
2 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms 2 ms 11 ms 11 ms 12 ms 11 ms 11 ms 12 ms [10.6.5.65]
3 2 ms 2 ms 3 ms 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 2 ms 3 ms 3 ms IP-64-72-134-177.nframe.net [64.72.134.177]
4 101 ms 144 ms 139 ms 145 ms 85 ms 81 ms 119 ms 115 ms 154 ms 139 ms IP-64-72-134-225.nframe.net [64.72.134.225]
5 122 ms 138 ms 136 ms 129 ms 74 ms 80 ms 125 ms 129 ms 157 ms 157 ms Cedar-2-SpruceA.nframe.com [216.37.0.125]
6 125 ms 137 ms 138 ms 124 ms 78 ms 80 ms 122 ms 116 ms 164 ms 164 ms POS0-0-1.GW4.IND6.ALTER.NET [157.130.103.245]
7 131 ms 149 ms 128 ms 124 ms 74 ms 81 ms 118 ms 106 ms 163 ms 193 ms 0.so-0-0-2.XL1.IND6.ALTER.NET [152.63.67.250]
8 144 ms 158 ms 141 ms 109 ms 79 ms 94 ms 126 ms 104 ms 163 ms 163 ms 0.so-5-0-0.XL1.CHI13.ALTER.NET [152.63.64.18]
9 126 ms 160 ms 132 ms 117 ms 87 ms 95 ms 120 ms 120 ms 170 ms 156 ms 0.so-6-0-0.BR2.CHI13.ALTER.NET [152.63.73.25]
10 120 ms 171 ms 163 ms 104 ms 102 ms 87 ms 142 ms 124 ms 161 ms 151 ms uu-gw.cgcil.ip.att.net [192.205.35.181]
11 154 ms 187 ms 185 ms 112 ms 142 ms 130 ms 188 ms 160 ms 183 ms 188 ms tbr2.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.87.254]
12 156 ms 170 ms 185 ms 114 ms 142 ms 131 ms 183 ms 155 ms 175 ms 186 ms cr2.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.17.237]
13 156 ms 175 ms 184 ms 118 ms 134 ms 132 ms 189 ms 146 ms 196 ms 194 ms cr2.sl9mo.ip.att.net [12.122.2.22]
14 157 ms 175 ms 186 ms 128 ms 138 ms 125 ms 182 ms 146 ms 192 ms 198 ms cr1.sl9mo.ip.att.net [12.122.2.217]
15 157 ms 180 ms 184 ms 122 ms 125 ms 132 ms 188 ms 148 ms 197 ms 196 ms cr2.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.3.221]
16 166 ms 176 ms 178 ms 114 ms 121 ms 135 ms 185 ms 167 ms 204 ms 191 ms gar5.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.138.5]
17 171 ms 176 ms 170 ms 137 ms 138 ms 143 ms 180 ms 180 ms 193 ms 190 ms mdf1-gsr12-1-pos-7-0.dal1.attens.net [12.122.255.82]
18 167 ms 171 ms 187 ms 137 ms 132 ms 147 ms 183 ms 261 ms 203 ms 187 ms mdf1-bi8k-1-eth-1-1.dal1.attens.net [63.241.192.250]
19 163 ms 164 ms 182 ms 138 ms 124 ms 142 ms 177 ms 175 ms 199 ms 204 ms [206.16.60.39]
Now, it wasn't always like this, but it has been consistently poop in the evenings (when I can play) for a few weeks now. I'd read all the election crap was going to create major traffic issues, but I would have thought it would have dwindled some afterwards. It hasn't- if anything, it's worse now, due to increased packet loss. Is this just traffic choking them out, or are there other factors at work?
I'd never heard of them until I ran pingplotter, and the local provider is upgrading our connection come January (doing away with their 3M/256K offering, making 10/1 the basic fios service.) I would have been thrilled, but I'm not thinking a crappy 10M connection is any better than a crappy 3M connection. Right now, I'm lucky to get a good connection to HTC at all. Last night it was dropping packets everywhere between Chicago and Dallas according to Pingplotter; this afternoon my ping to the MAs was 850, and to the forum it was over a full second, and now my ping is ranging from 60 to 200+, with random packet loss.
My dialup connection had very nearly the same latency, and packet loss. I had hoped fiber would be an upgrade, but it looks like I got screwed. Is there any word on these guys? Are they trying to become another Savvis or Level3?
