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Internet hangup - traceroute?

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NutmegCT

NutmegCT

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This is the first I've been able to go online for several hours. Lots of internet problems here in my area (northeast Connecticut).

Could someone translate the following traceroute: In particular, why the disappearance at a step 5, and how should the three sets of timings be interpreted, especially beginning at step 14?

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traceroute to cnx.org (128.42.205.135), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 22.785 ms 2.882 ms 11.227 ms
2 10.26.0.1 (10.26.0.1) 10.069 ms 10.527 ms 11.555 ms
3 24-151-8-33.static.nwtn.ct.charter.com (24.151.8.33) 12.575 ms 12.366 ms 12.627 ms
4 172.20.103.38 (172.20.103.38) 14.857 ms 15.51 ms 12.833 ms
5 * * *
6 * * *
7 * * *
8 * * *
9 * * *
10 * * *
11 * * *
12 * * *
13 * * *
14 ae-1-55.bbr1.atlanta1.level3.net (4.68.103.129) 60.077 ms ae-1-51.bbr1.atlanta1.level3.net (4.68.103.1) 43.628 ms ae-1-53.bbr1.atlanta1.level3.net (4.68.103.65) 67.863 ms
15 so-1-0-0.mp2.houston1.level3.net (4.68.144.10) 79.921 ms 79.33 ms 88.806 ms
16 so-10-0.hsa2.houston1.level3.net (4.68.112.150) 80.083 ms 78.807 ms 78.969 ms
17 unknown.level3.net (63.214.240.34) 79.553 ms 79.24 ms 78.509 ms
18 128.42.205.135 (128.42.205.135) 79.674 ms 80.269 ms 81.349 ms
19 128.42.205.135 (128.42.205.135) 80.191 ms 78.76 ms 79.655 ms
20 128.42.205.135 (128.42.205.135) 78.861 ms 79.373 ms 79.464 ms

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Thanks.
[Tom
 
nutmeg, ive also been having conection problems in stamford for the last few days, my comp. will not capture/hold on to web pages not even when i select "favorites" having a hard time getting and staying on bcf. began to think "the boss" figured out a way to banish me.
 
Tom,

I really don't want to say this but no problems here at home. You know more about these things than I do but maybe when you opened that fake paypal email you got more than you thought. BTW - The computer in my office on the town account was losing web connection on and off for the last three weeks although the computer says it's connected and all is well? I thought it was the tec guys limiting where I could go but they told me no and said they had no idea I was even having a problem. They're still working on it. I'll ask them if they found out anything tomorrow.
 
Since both are in CT, it is likely some common router problem. I had some temporary issues with my server but this doesn't sound like that is the problem.
 
Thanks for the suggestions guys.

Just to be clear, the email in question was from a guy with whom I made a PayPal transaction with last week. There was nothing to "open" or "click on". Evidently his computer was one of the thousands across the country that had its PayPal contents "borrowed". That email is/was a symptom of a very large "hacker" attack; his computer most likely had the "bot" which recorded his PayPal info and transactions, and sent out that scary email to everyone in his address book and PayPal account.

The internet connection problems we had in Connecticut yesterday were the result of a level3 router failure, most likely the New York node. Many parts of CT served by Charter (and others) were without 'net connection for most of Sunday. I had started this topic in hopes someone with internet hardware knowledge could interpret that traceroute in my first post above, and see if the "timings" between nodes were significant.

By the way Basil - doing a traceroute from here to your server's IP often shows a *lot* of congestion, slowdown, and lost packets. This may be related to other guys' mentioning they often have trouble reaching or "hanging on to" BCF. It's not your server's fault at all - just the "route" the packets take.

Of course it's typical for me ... to get that spurious email, then to read of the PayPal problem, then go into password change limbo, at the exact time the 'net went down here. Oh joy.

Digitally yours,
Tom
 
Harry - Were you online much yesterday? Did you have any BCF connection (or any 'net connection) problems Sunday?

Tom
 
Tom,

Online yesterday morning and evening - No problems - I Did the Golden Spike to Idaho Falls run and stayed in a motel 6 last night - That was great! I Got up early this morning only to get stuck in dreaded road construction so I'm staying over a couple days at the Overpass Hotel in Billings Montana before moving on.


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