[TriLUG] OT: Earthlink and ISPs

[John Broome]

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 15:40, Bill Farrow <bill at arrowsreach.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Jim <jjtuttle at trilug.org> wrote:
>> So, it occurred to me that with the same equipment I receive significantly
>> different bandwidth allocation.  Is TWC intentionally throttling Earthlink
>> connections?
>
> My understanding is that TWC delivers all traffic coming from Earthink
> customers to a Earthlink data center, and Earthlink is responsible for
> backhauling this traffic to the internet.  So Earthink might be saving
> themselves some money by using a smaller and cheaper backhaul link.

>From my Earthlink over RR home connection to a google.com IP:

Host
                                   Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best
Wrst StDev
 1. fw
                                     0.0%    15    0.5   0.5   0.5
1.3   0.2
 2. user-0c2h181.cable.mindspring.com
                                     0.0%    15   11.2  12.2   7.8
20.8   3.6
 3. 66.26.44.185
                                     0.0%    15   51.5  17.4  10.8
51.5  10.7
 4. ge-6-0-0.rlghncpop-rtr1.southeast.rr.com
                                     0.0%    15   17.7  16.4  11.2
34.6   7.5
 5. ae-3-0.cr0.dca10.tbone.rr.com
                                     0.0%    15   38.3  32.2  26.0
42.6   6.0
 6. ae-2-0.pr0.dca10.tbone.rr.com
                                     0.0%    15   32.9  32.6  25.0
69.4  11.1
 7. 66.109.9.66
                                     0.0%    15   27.6  32.6  26.4
48.2   8.3
 8. 216.239.48.108
                                     0.0%    15   45.1  35.0  27.5
55.8   8.7
 9. 66.249.95.149
                                     0.0%    15   40.0  44.6  25.0
147.9  34.3
10. 64.233.175.34
                                     0.0%    15   55.2  33.0  26.4
55.2   7.5
11. 74.125.229.20
                                     0.0%    15   34.4  30.2  25.1
48.1   5.7

The only thing on there that's an earthlink owned IP is the 2nd hop
right out of my router.