[wplug] Verizon vs Comcast

[Eric Cooper]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 09:59:17AM -0500, Florin Manolache wrote:
> Some of our faculty is tunnelling the traffic through various other
> universities, and that works fine because it gets to CMU through
> Internet 2, so there are several workarounds in place.
> However the main idea of my original message was to figure out if the
> Comcast service poses less bandwidth problems so I can recommend the
> switch to people having that choice.
> various other universities

Comcast's routing to CMU is much more direct, so it's likely to solve
your current problem:

traceroute to www.cmu.edu (128.2.42.52), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  [my router]  0.232 ms  0.238 ms  0.256 ms
 2  * * *
 3  te-0-0-0-6-sur01.ross.pa.pitt.comcast.net (68.85.234.101)  11.327 ms  12.237 ms  12.273 ms
 4  162-151-21-38-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net (162.151.21.38)  13.343 ms te-0-8-0-1-ar03.pittsburgh.pa.pitt.comcast.net (69.139.194.97)  13.183 ms  13.225 ms
 5  * * *
 6  * 68.86.100.146 (68.86.100.146)  33.865 ms  34.783 ms
 7  rtr-acm.cmu.3rox.net (147.73.16.121)  11.215 ms  7.896 ms  11.072 ms
 8  CORE255-VL987.GW.CMU.NET (128.2.255.249)  11.980 ms  12.129 ms  11.011 ms
 9  POD-D-CYH-VL960.GW.CMU.NET (128.2.255.205)  11.100 ms  11.038 ms  8.154 ms
10  WWW-CMU-PROD-VIP.ANDREW.CMU.EDU (128.2.42.52)  7.792 ms  11.819 ms  11.630 ms

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Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u