Found out the source of my Comcast problems. NFO already on the case.

RainMotorsports

RainMotorsports

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This is of course aside from a router that died and a cable degraded to nothing.

Comcast goes through a couple of major backbones like any other ISP. One of them is Cogent. Seems cogent is having capacity issues which is causing bad lag spikes. NFO has in several locations already blocked routes involving Cogent forcing connections to go through AT&T backbones.

I don't know a ton about networking but it seems that when one connection lags it actually messes with my other connections. If I'm in STO and team speak, STO goes through cogent and since TS is hosted on NFO it goes through AT&T when my game hangs my TS breaks up. In testing during the lag spikes both are affected however the cogent ping is twice that of AT&T. If the problem is in fact with Cogent and is in fact causing the other connections trouble then I'm screwed. I'm always in 2 things at once that have streaming connections

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Use a proxy Rain. A trusted one if you can find it or just when you are gaming or need the consistency.
 
The connection to the proxy would have to not go through cogent. That's a pretty specific request of a service. If the connection goes from you to the proxy through cogent then the route even though from the proxy through their backbone provider to the end point is stable is still dirty.

Sounds like it wouldn't be cheap? I mean I'd think the real solution is an ISP that doesnt have a contract with cogent.Tell me if I'm wrong but 25 Mbps VPN for cheap much less free not gonna happen right?

Its not just when I'm gaming. I almost Always have 2 streaming connections going I watch all my TV on the net and it gets affected.
 
I realize that, but it is possible and I did not mean to buy a proxy. I meant to use a good free one and i would hope that you would do a trace route to verify if it is off the Cogent network or not. It's a quick and dirty way of getting off your network if the routing is correct. If every single thing you do is going through Cogent then you are likely SOL. Sorry bud. When I had my issues a year or so ago it took lots of phone calls and lots of emails to get TWC off their ass to fix a hop for me. Turned out to be a bad backbone switch after the router in New York somewhere. At first they didn't really care too much since it was "within allowed packet loss deviations" or something to that effect. Basically it has to reach a specific threshold for them to care too much about it. You could however speed up the failure of that device, but I didn't tell you that or how...lol
 
I dunno the network layout but AT&T is pretty broad in availability. My situation is a bit special not owning a TV etc. I just find I'd probably need the VPN or want it more often then not. I am constantly remoted into my desktop from my cell etc.

Most people hate Comcast but I've had 9 years of awesome service until now. They need to make up with Level 3 and get some more capacity going.
 
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