level3_bx4-montrealak.net consistently dropping 50% of the packets

Thu Feb 20 16:16:22 UTC 2014

There are reports of problems in Montreal with several other providers 
over the last several days.  These seem to coincide with the Olympics 
live broadcasts, particularly during the hockey broadcasts.

-- Stephen

On 2014-02-20 10:08 AM, Nick Cameo wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> According to mtr command we are consistently seeing
> level3_bx4-montrealak.net
> dropping 30-50% of packets. Our ISP is Bell Canada. Any ideas on how to get
> this resolved are greatly appreciated.
>
>
> HOST: victoria                    Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
>    1.|-- 192.168.2.1                0.0%    10    0.5   0.8   0.4   1.6   0.5
>    2.|-- lns2-montrealak_lo0_LNS.n  0.0%    10    6.7   7.6   6.7   8.8   0.7
>    3.|-- agg1-montrealak_GE0-2-2_1  0.0%    10    6.4   6.3   5.4   7.6   0.6
>    4.|-- bx4-montrealak_so-0-0-0.n  0.0%    10    6.0   5.8   4.9   7.0   0.7
>    5.|-- level3_bx4-montrealak.net 50.0%    10    6.5   6.7   5.7   7.9   0.8
>    6.|-- ae-11-11.car1.Montreal2.L  0.0%    10   92.2  91.7  91.0  92.8   0.7
>    7.|-- ae-5-5.ebr2.NewYork1.Leve  0.0%    10   90.9  92.0  90.9  92.7   0.6
>
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Nick.
>