[TriLUG] OT: Earthlink and ISPs

[Carl Crider]

Thanks for posting this John. I'd hate for this discussion to turn
into an "Indian call centers are
too blame ..." rant, and mislead anyone. TWC makes $ leasing bandwidth
in order to afford
more of their own. As does every other large bandwidth provider. I've
referred a ton of people
to Earthlink cable, and I know 2 of them that have changed ... because
they moved out of state.

When (if ever) we Earthlink cable customers have bandwidth, hardware,
or outage-type issues,
remember to call TWC. If you can't remember your password or need to
change your billing,
call Earthlink. Both companies have chat support as well. Although the
TWC version does
not work with Firefox on Debian. Oh well.  :)



On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:19 PM, John Broome <jbroome at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
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