Interesting issue with my Netflix streaming.....
I started having trouble with my Netflix streaming to my smart tv tonight so I began investigating and found something very interesting... Initially I tried a ping to netflix.com and every request timed out. I figured maybe their servers don't accept incoming pings so I tried a tracert next and this is what came back..... Tracing route to netflix.com [107.20.154.246] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 10.51.0.1 - My modem 2 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 172.21.0.180 - Cox 3 42 ms 29 ms 29 ms 70.169.77.248 - Cox 4 44 ms 59 ms 45 ms dalsbprj01-ae1.0.rd.dl.cox.net [68.1.2.109] - Cox 5 31 ms 31 ms 32 ms 68.105.30.10 - Cox 6 72 ms 66 ms 65 ms 54.240.229.102 - AMAZON?? 7 66 ms 67 ms 67 ms 54.240.229.12 - AMAZON?? 8 79 ms 79 ms 79 ms 54.240.229.164 - AMAZON?? 9 66 ms 67 ms 65 ms 54.240.229.125 - AMAZON?? 10 73 ms 73 ms 73 ms 205.251.244.22 - AMAZON?? 11 66 ms 67 ms 68 ms 205.251.245.11 - AMAZON?? 12 65 ms 67 ms 67 ms 205.251.245.123 - AMAZON?? 13 * * * Request timed out. 14 * * * Request timed out. 15 * * * Request timed out. 16 69 ms 69 ms 74 ms 216.182.224.197 - AMAZON?? 17 * * * Request timed out. 18 * * * Request timed out. 19 * * * Request timed out. 20 * * * Request timed out. 21 * * * Request timed out. 22 * * * Request timed out. 23 * * * Request timed out. 24 * * * Request timed out. 25 * * * Request timed out. 26 * * * Request timed out. 27 * * * Request timed out. 28 * * * Request timed out. 29 * * * Request timed out. 30 * * * Request timed out. Trace complete. So what I am wondering is why my internet connection is being routed through AMAZON connections to get to Netflix. The last time I checked, Amazon didn't own Netflix, nor are they an ISP and they certainly don't own Cox. As soon as my connection moves from the Cox network over to Amazon you can see that all of the connection times go up, or even time out. Here's a tracert to Yahoo..... Tracing route to yahoo.com [98.138.253.109] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms 10.51.0.1 - my modem 2 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 172.21.2.180 - Cox 3 36 ms 19 ms 19 ms 70.169.77.248 - Cox 4 41 ms 42 ms 44 ms sanjbprj01-ae0.0.rd.sj.cox.net [68.1.5.184] - Cox 5 160 ms 43 ms 43 ms 68.105.31.47 - Cox 6 95 ms 109 ms 99 ms ae-9.pat2.dnx.yahoo.com [216.115.96.113] - Yahoo 7 80 ms 79 ms 79 ms ae-6.pat1.nez.yahoo.com [216.115.104.118] - Yahoo 8 80 ms 79 ms 79 ms ae-0.msr1.ne1.yahoo.com [216.115.100.1] - Yahoo 9 79 ms 79 ms 79 ms UNKNOWN-98-138-97-X.yahoo.com [98.138.97.3] - Yahoo 10 81 ms 79 ms 79 ms UNKNOWN-98-138-97-X.yahoo.com [98.138.97.47] - Yahoo 11 81 ms 79 ms 79 ms po-17.bas1-7-prd.ne1.yahoo.com [98.138.240.20] - Yahoo 12 80 ms 81 ms 80 ms ir1.fp.vip.ne1.yahoo.com [98.138.253.109] - Yahoo Trace complete. So in this we can see that my traffic takes a different route and jumps directly from the Cox network on to the Yahoo network and then connects. I ran a tracert to a website that I run next.... Tracing route to azcheermixes.com [192.0.78.24] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 6 ms 7 ms 7 ms 10.51.0.1 - my modem 2 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 172.21.0.180 - Cox 3 28 ms 22 ms 39 ms 70.169.77.248 - Cox 4 20 ms 21 ms 19 ms langbprj02-ae2.rd.la.cox.net [68.1.1.19] - Cox 5 20 ms 22 ms 21 ms ae-7.r00.lsanca19.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.194.165] - NTT America 6 34 ms 34 ms 34 ms ae-17.r04.lsanca03.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.6.202] - NTT America 7 21 ms 21 ms 25 ms ae-6.r21.lsanca03.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.5.69] - NTT America 8 30 ms 29 ms 31 ms ae-12.r22.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.4.150] - NTT America 9 32 ms 31 ms 31 ms ae-36.r02.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.5.242] - NTT America 10 29 ms 29 ms 29 ms xe-0-6-0-8.r02.snjsca04.us.ce.gin.ntt.net [128.241.1.150] - NTT America 11 30 ms 30 ms 29 ms 192.0.78.24 - Wordpress (my site host) Trace complete. Low connection times, no timeouts and NO AMAZON. Does anyone know why Cox traffic to Netflix is being routed through Amazon??6.1KViews0likes1Comment- 2.2KViews0likes0Comments
Connection drops for 1-10 seconds every 1-2 hours
Starting roughly a month ago I have been experiencing drops in internet connectivity for 1-10 seconds every 1-2 hours. Zoom calls completely die and have to reconnect. In other cases, Zoom says "poor internet connection". In cooperative applications, I receive many syncing issues. Apps like Youtube, and Netflix work well, I suspect because their buffering can withstand a few seconds of dropped connection. I upgraded to Gigablast to attempt to address the problem but there has been no change. Here are some details on my connection: All in-home connections are wired. No WiFi Download Speed from (https://www.speedtest.net/) 500 Mb/s Upload speed > 30 Mb/s Cable modem downstream power 2-3 dBmV Cable modem downstream SNR 42-45 dB Cable modem upstream power 39-43 dBmV As far as I can tell these numbers all look reasonable. To further isolate the problem, I have been running a once per second ping test to my in-home router, to the first cox router and to 8.8.8.8. Here are those results. -100 means the ping failed. https://ibb.co/x5kTS98 As you can see in my testing that pinging the cox router can fail for upwards of 10 seconds. My conclusion is that my home network is sound, but the connection to the first Cox router is disconnecting about once an hour for many seconds. Any help in this regard would be great, Thanks.1.4KViews0likes3Comments