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I've been having trouble these past few months with certain websites timing out or acting really slow, so I decided to do some traceroute testing. One particular website I try to access called "vp.crossmark.com" is very bad about its loading time. Following is the tracert output for the URL above:
C:\Users\[USERNAME]>tracert vp.crossmark.com
Tracing route to vp.crossmark.com [64.128.22.182]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 12 ms 9 ms 4 ms router.asus.com [192.168.1.1]
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * 324 ms 10 ms 208-180-188-197.suddenlink.net [208.180.188.197]
4 * 56 ms 55 ms 173-219-224-142.suddenlink.net [173.219.224.142]
5 * 364 ms 237 ms 173-219-227-44.suddenlink.net [173.219.227.44]
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 36 ms 37 ms 40 ms dal1-ar1-ae21-0.us.twtelecom.net [66.192.243.70]
11 * * 43 ms 50.58.193.110
12 * * 42 ms test-vp.crossmark.com [64.128.22.182]
Trace complete.
Here's another for comparision:
C:\Users\[USERNAME]> tracert vp.crossmark.com
Tracing route to vp.crossmark.com [64.128.22.182]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms router.asus.com [192.168.1.1]
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * 16 ms 208-180-188-197.suddenlink.net [208.180.188.197]
4 * * 99 ms 173-219-224-142.suddenlink.net [173.219.224.142]
5 256 ms 243 ms * 173-219-227-44.suddenlink.net [173.219.227.44]
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * 18 ms ae-1-60.edge5.Dallas3.Level3.net [4.69.145.14]
9 21 ms 20 ms 23 ms dal2-pr1-ae1-0.us.twtelecom.net [64.128.212.65]
10 42 ms 37 ms 38 ms dal1-ar1-ae21-0.us.twtelecom.net [66.192.243.70]
11 42 ms 41 ms 43 ms 50.58.193.110
12 121 ms * 42 ms test-vp.crossmark.com [64.128.22.182]
Trace complete.
I noticed that the ping time between the suddenlink servers and the servers that connect to crossmark takes a massive jump into the 200-400 range. I've repeated this a few times and I constantly find massive jumps in ping time or even several timeouts at the same point between networks.
I'm wondering if this is a sign of connectivity issues between my ISP and the servers I am requesting. This website isn't the only one doing this by the way, but most larger sites like google, youtube, or wikipedia make the jump without sudden ping time increase.
Just tried a tracert, didn't do it for me, also came with a diff URL but the same ip – Kilisi – 2015-10-20T23:24:30.667