From traceroutes and additional extended pings, I could tell that some of
I've recently been on a hunt - I'm currently on a contract in the Bay Area, but I am still doing some sysadmin for an ISP back in montana. The Montana ISP is Sprint connected. For my local connection in Hayward, CA, I signed up with PACbell, figuring that it would do until I found another provider. After two months I had had enough and went on a quest for another provider. What I discovered is that If I did an extended ping to any provider in my local calling area, I had at least 5% packet loss (the provider I am using right now was at 5%). Pacbell was around 50%. Others varied. By contrast, I can ping any sprint-customer-attached computer and have almost 0% packet loss (1 out of 1000 lost occassionaly). Unfortunately I couldn't find a local provider which was spirnt connected. (An aside: anyone who knows a local priver in hayward which is sprint-connected is more than welcome to contact me directly :) the loss was at exchange points - other times the loss was in internal networks. IS there a reason that I'm getting 5 - 50% loss outside of sprint? I've also played a bit with this from a couple of other providers with similar results. As much as I hate to say anything nice about sprint, I'd have to say that they're very good about not loosing packets, at least when they're BGP hasn't imploded. -forrestc@imach.com