Does anyone have any details about the Cogent outage that started this morning (9am GMT-400) and is still continuing ? If its a fibre cut between Montville (NJ?) and Cleveland OH (http://status.cogentco.com/) why is it so bad in Chicago and Albany locations ? Is there really that little excess capacity ? My connection out of Toronto is pretty bad via Albany 3 g8-22.mpd01.yyz02.atlas.cogentco.com (38.104.158.77) 7.470 ms 6.754 ms 6.481 ms 4 v3493.mpd01.yyz01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.5.85) 6.981 ms 6.730 ms 6.984 ms 5 g2-0-0-3490.core01.yyz01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.5.73) 6.482 ms 7.175 ms 5.974 ms 6 p4-0.core01.alb02.atlas.cogentco.com (66.28.4.217) 105.954 ms 112.055 ms 111.426 ms 7 p6-0.core01.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.7.42) 115.413 ms 117.090 ms 113.816 ms and Bell's through Chicago is even worse 6 64.230.229.5 (64.230.229.5) 12.572 ms 36.983 ms 200.187 ms 7 64.230.242.97 (64.230.242.97) 4.685 ms 5.439 ms 3.645 ms 8 64.230.147.14 (64.230.147.14) 14.351 ms 15.344 ms 14.387 ms 9 206.108.103.142 (206.108.103.142) 14.374 ms 14.280 ms 14.255 ms 10 p13-0.core01.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.11.29) 156.616 ms * 142.150 ms 11 te3-1.mpd01.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.1.206) 135.199 ms 138.900 ms * 12 t2-4.mpd01.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.2.233) 152.292 ms 149.956 ms 148.095 ms 13 t4-2.mpd01.iah01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.5.221) 149.047 ms 150.556 ms 151.232 ms ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike