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So I tried getting my email at work when I got home this evening only to have it time out. Then I noticed an IM from one of the guys saying that our office was down and that a tracert from his house ends in a loop. Steve has Verizon DSL so I ran my own test and we compared just to make sure it wasn’t some wierd Verizon deal… same issue. My tracert never leaves Comcast’s network because both our office and I have Comcast as our ISP. It’s usually 4-5 hops to our office. Tonight we’ve been getting this:

Tracing route to www.geekcenter.us [70.88.229.106]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 7 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.150.1
2 78 ms 116 ms 16 ms 73.139.80.1
3 89 ms 15 ms 8 ms ge-1-22-ur02.churchville.md.bad.comcast.net [68.87.132.253]
4 127 ms 18 ms 13 ms te-8-4-ar01.whitemarsh.md.bad.comcast.net [68.87.128.226]
5 12 ms 11 ms 11 ms po10-ar01.capitolhghts.md.bad.comcast.net [68.87.129.137]
6 12 ms 15 ms 31 ms 68.87.16.165
7 23 ms 133 ms 29 ms 68.87.16.21
8 88 ms 18 ms 26 ms 68.87.16.146
9 23 ms 18 ms 15 ms po10-ar01.capitolhghts.md.bad.comcast.net [68.87.129.137]
10 62 ms 13 ms 15 ms 68.87.16.165
11 146 ms 17 ms 16 ms 68.87.16.21
12 81 ms 16 ms 14 ms 68.87.16.146
13 17 ms 18 ms 19 ms po10-ar01.capitolhghts.md.bad.comcast.net [68.87.129.137]
14 28 ms 18 ms 17 ms 68.87.16.165
15 89 ms 15 ms 25 ms 68.87.16.21
16 70 ms 17 ms 16 ms 68.87.16.146
17 20 ms 24 ms 175 ms po10-ar01.capitolhghts.md.bad.comcast.net [68.87.129.137]
18 55 ms 62 ms 48 ms 68.87.16.165
19 63 ms 19 ms 28 ms 68.87.16.21
20 26 ms 21 ms 179 ms 68.87.16.146
21 36 ms 26 ms 21 ms po10-ar01.capitolhghts.md.bad.comcast.net [68.87.129.137]
22 108 ms 25 ms 21 ms 68.87.16.165
23 58 ms 22 ms 33 ms 68.87.16.21
24 26 ms 21 ms 21 ms 68.87.16.146
25 36 ms 26 ms 27 ms po10-ar01.capitolhghts.md.bad.comcast.net [68.87.129.137]
26 104 ms 23 ms 28 ms 68.87.16.165
27 27 ms 24 ms 25 ms 68.87.16.21
28 71 ms 28 ms 48 ms 68.87.16.146
29 36 ms 71 ms 44 ms po10-ar01.capitolhghts.md.bad.comcast.net [68.87.129.137]
30 35 ms 27 ms 147 ms 68.87.16.165

Trace complete.

So as you can obviously see, Comcast Routing issue. And of course, as usual, with any major technical issue, the Tier 1 monkey knows nothing, and doesn’t want to bother pushing it up the ladder. So we’ll just have to see what happens… no ETA, no nothing. More proof that we need a more reliable ISP at the office, cause Comcast just doesn’t cut it on the reliability end. I’m stilling waiting for that big T3 I asked for 6 months ago (when one dreams, one should dream big!).