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Debugging high ping at home once mtr (or similar, I think it was a graphical tool) showed the first 5 or 6 hops all in the ISPs network and taking about ⅔ of th

Debugging high ping at home once mtr (or similar, I think it was a graphical tool) showed the first 5 or 6 hops all in the ISPs network and taking about ⅔ of the time; going from UK to USA and then leaving their network in Amsterdam IIRC only to terminate at another data-center in UK. Pretty crazy. Ha, it only just struck me that could have been an NSA-type routing issue!?!

hinkley 6y ago
That reminds me of the bug in Google Maps where a route from southern Sweden to Norway suggested driving through the Chunnel and taking a car ferry across from Scotland.
WrtCdEvrydy 6y ago
The internet is supposed to be self-healing but the ISP routes are sometimes hella-dumb. More than once I have seen a traceroute that takes you from Miami, down to Argentina and then back up to Cali.