I think your trace routes are just to their web servers. You need to figure out where the actual videos are being streamed from. I used the Developer Tools (Network tab) in Google Chrome to figure this out. The FQDNs will probably look like the ones in my trace routes. Derek On Mar 6, 2013, at 10:38 PM, John Zettlemoyer <john@razorservers.com> wrote:
I've been seeing the same thing and was thinking it was me. Just to add to some of the results here...
Verizon FIOS 1 32 ms 3 ms 5 ms l100.cmdnnj-vfttp-27.verizon-gni.net [98.110.113.1] 2 33 ms 6 ms 7 ms g0-3-3-7.cmdnnj-lcr-22.verizon-gni.net [130.81.183.186] 3 22 ms 22 ms 21 ms xe-4-1-8-0.ny5030-bb-rtr2.verizon-gni.net [130.81.209.84] 4 22 ms 21 ms 21 ms 0.so-0-0-0.xt2.nyc4.alter.net [152.63.17.21] 5 58 ms 24 ms 24 ms tengige0-5-4-0.gw8.nyc4.alter.net [152.63.18.206] 6 * 76 ms 76 ms google-gw.customer.alter.net [152.179.72.62] 7 25 ms 21 ms 24 ms 209.85.255.68 8 21 ms 34 ms 34 ms 209.85.252.242 9 30 ms 28 ms 31 ms 209.85.249.11 10 31 ms 29 ms 29 ms 72.14.236.149 11 38 ms 36 ms 36 ms 72.14.238.173 12 31 ms 29 ms 31 ms iad23s05-in-f8.1e100.net [74.125.228.8]
Comcast 1 33 ms 15 ms 25 ms 68.38.220.1 2 8 ms 10 ms 15 ms xe-11-3-0-0-sur01.burlington.nj.panjde.comcast.net [68.85.128.237] 3 10 ms 9 ms 9 ms xe-13-0-0-0-ar03.audubon.nj.panjde.comcast.net [68.85.62.89] 4 14 ms 15 ms 15 ms pos-3-6-0-0-cr01.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.92.161] 5 15 ms 13 ms 14 ms pos-0-0-0-0-pe01.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.86.26] 6 * 23 ms 25 ms 75.149.231.62 7 17 ms 15 ms 14 ms 209.85.252.46 8 17 ms 16 ms 15 ms 72.14.238.173 9 17 ms 15 ms 16 ms iad23s05-in-f8.1e100.net [74.125.228.8]
Our datacenter 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms static.razorinc.net [70.34.208.101] 2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 70.34.251.9 3 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms xe-0-2-0.phi10.ip4.tinet.net [199.168.63.233] 4 2 ms 3 ms 2 ms xe-7-2-1.was14.ip4.tinet.net [89.149.181.174] 5 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 72.14.213.61 6 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms 216.239.46.248 7 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms 72.14.238.173 8 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms iad23s05-in-f8.1e100.net [74.125.228.8]
It would be nice if the ISPs and content providers could work out something when dealing with this much traffic and clearly needing to add capaicty. It's nice to dream too...
John