This must not be affecting everyone because my ssh connection from Toronto to Portland is working just fine without additional latency. Edit: The Ontario rout

This must not be affecting everyone because my ssh connection from Toronto to Portland is working just fine without additional latency. Edit: The Ontario router seems to be dropping packets: $ ping gw02.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com PING gw02.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com (66.185.86.254) 56(84) bytes of data. From <snip> icmp_seq=1 Packet filtered From <snip> icmp_seq=2 Packet filtered From <snip> icmp_seq=3 Packet filtered --- gw02.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 10206ms Though I have no issue with routers under that sub-domain: $ traceroute <snip> traceroute to <snip> (<snip>), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 <snip> (192.168.1.1) 1.489 ms 2.038 ms 2.669 ms 2 * * * 3 69.63.243.69 (69.63.243.69) 17.599 ms 17.584 ms 17.339 ms 4 so-4-0-0.gw02.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com (66.185.82.97) 31.992 ms 31.972 ms 31.819 ms 5 69.63.253.65 (69.63.253.65) 33.198 ms 34.687 ms 34.596 ms 6 * * * 7 pos-3-15-0-0-cr01.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.86.25) 35.557 ms 28.952 ms 28.818 ms 8 68.86.85.14 (68.86.85.14) 33.029 ms 42.176 ms 41.924 ms 9 he-0-4-0-0-cr01.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.88.146) 49.244 ms 45.218 ms 44.940 ms 10 pos-1-2-0-0-pe01.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.86.78) 37.146 ms 40.169 ms 40.372 ms Note: so-4-0-0.gw02.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com is having no issues. I don't know how Rogers' internal network is setup, but it seems like if there are issues they are handling them so that customers (or at least I) don't see them.