Slow Internet - TRACERT Request Timed Out
I work from home and since last week my internet access has slowed down a lot. When I run a tracert I get a number of Request Timed Out responses: Tracing route to 148.51.224.124 over a maximum of ...
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What you have here is a textbook example of what is called ICMP de-prioritization. It appears hops 6-9 are configured to ignore ICMP (pings) when they are the intended destination, probably for bandwidth economy. I'm not sure exactly what your intended destination here is although ARIN seems to suggest it's owned by a data center in Boston but more than likely the slowdowns are due to being routed through the Zayo.com network. They're not known for being the best in the peering department.
