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Agreed, every time I look at any various looking glass to see why something is broken on the internet, it's Cogent dropping the ball... Remember this?

Every time I have to troubleshoot a broken internet problem, and it goes up to Tier 1 land, check the looking glass... It's Cogent being stupid. As soon as this story hit... check. Sure enough, Cogent-Level3 has ~3% packet loss the last 24 hours, with stupidly high latency. Screenshot .

We could also, you know, confirm by looking at packet loss stats from Cogent to your ISP's carrier
http://internethealthreport.co...

http://internethealthreport.com/

Packet loss over a 24-hour period seems to support the claims, but barely.

None needed

Bloody articles. Its actually Internet Health Report.

Fey.

The Internet Health Report shows the interruption

Your link doesn't work, use http://www.internethealthreport.com/

"They've described the activity they're seeing as somewhat strange. The backbone is, according to them, at about 80% utilization -- they've never seen it above 40% before. However, the main portal sites such as Yahoo aren't having substantively higher than normal traffic. They're working on doing some traffic analysis but haven't completed that effort yet"

The data at Internet Health Report would lead me to believe that, other than a higher-than-usual web browsing traffic to specific sites, it's business as usual for the majority of the internet.

I'd like to see any contrary information, though.