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Given North America's current 23% packet loss and multiple core pipelines out I think your sarcasm isn't warranted. That's not including the rest of the world, just my native area.

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/history/graphs/tr_249_r1.gif

But the latency in Ontario is 0ms!!!

Why the recurring 100% packet loss in Ontario and British Columbia?

Yours In Minsk,
K. Trout, C.T.O. http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm

    with 70. Brazil must be a distraction from the Greek implosion.

    Here is the Internet Traffic Report.

    Have a day!

Yours In Dallas,
Kilgore Trout.

Ron "Mucho Wacko" Paul For President !!!

Has anyone noticed packet loss?

Read this from Internet Weather Report.

Thanks in advance.

http://www.kitchenlab.org/www/bmah/Software/pchar/
http://www.isc.org/software/irrtoolset
http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/
http://www.caida.org/tools/

If you want transparency, you can always do it yourself. Why wait for Google? You've a list of tools right there that will tell you who is throttling, when, where, how, by how much, and maybe even what they had for breakfast.

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/main.htm
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm

Then there's the Weather Channel for geeks. That should give you a good indication of "unusual" packet losses, indicative of throttling.

http://www.noc.ucla.edu/weather.html
http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/weather/weather.html

For more local weather on the tens, there's UCLA and UCSF.

There ya go, and it cost you rather less than the same information is costing Google.

http://www.kitchenlab.org/www/bmah/Software/pchar/
http://www.isc.org/software/irrtoolset
http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/
http://www.caida.org/tools/

If you want transparency, you can always do it yourself. Why wait for Google? You've a list of tools right there that will tell you who is throttling, when, where, how, by how much, and maybe even what they had for breakfast.

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/main.htm
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm

Then there's the Weather Channel for geeks. That should give you a good indication of "unusual" packet losses, indicative of throttling.

http://www.noc.ucla.edu/weather.html
http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/weather/weather.html

For more local weather on the tens, there's UCLA and UCSF.

There ya go, and it cost you rather less than the same information is costing Google.

And to add, looks like quite a few backbones are down.

http://internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm

Texas, Nevada, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Ontario, CA and Vancouver, CA are completely down, no wonder there are so many DNS propagation requests at this time.

This problem is not as bad when the network health is better globally and in my local continental region.

What? Idiots and Racists may be self excluding? What ever will we do for entertainment? Also, what asshat broke the internet in NA? Seems like a lot of pages are not loading here in AZ (not just the /.ed ones)... somebody want to look at that "internet routes around damage" thing and maybe whack it on the side or something?

You don't see more of it because you don't get told, and you don't look.

Then there are the snit fits peers have to indulge in.

And the occasional stupidity.

Go check out the Internet Taffic Report from time to time. Today it looks like there was significant event. Wonder what happened.....?

Now don't get me started on PMTUD. How do I explain to a user that it is not 'our' network that is the cause, we have MILLIONS of users working just fine, but everyone in their office can't get on because we broke something just to annoy them? And of course, since they can see the same error a different, unrelated site, it MUST BE US. Yeah. I'm the designated PMTUD expert on the team now, because I let their ISP talk itself into the solution. And I can read packet captures. Yay me, think I'm going off decaf for a few days...

The Internet is not perfect.

"And their firewalls didn't detect the melamine in the imported DNS records? Pitiful."

I was going to recommend lead but I forgot this isn't the 80s-90s any longer.

Lead would've made a better explanation for the slower speeds and 'cancerous' degradation that's been showing up on The Internet Traffic Report (currently at 62% as of this posting) with lead being heavier and all that fun chemistry stuff. ;)

What do you mean? Hits? Actual data transfered? For example Internet Traffic Report reports on the current performance of major Internet routes around the world. That the traffic your talking about? Seems to me this whole thing is a dick measuring contest, rolled into a subliminal FACEBOOK ad. heh.

Anyone having connection problems?

See Intenet Traffic Report.

Thanks.

Most of the time when I hear crap like "By most estimates..." with out any sign of a source to back it up, I attribute the remainder of the sentence the same amount of credence as the sound of my coworker's ass cheaks flapping together after an especially hanious fart.

Maybe he's right, but with out anything to back up his opinion, he just looks like some shill who is lobying for some organization with a strong financial incentive for not seeing net nuetrality laws and being allowed to run deep packet inspection.

The best I can find is Ellacoya's June 2007 report that put P2P at 37% of total bandwidth. http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070618005912&newsLang=en

A wee bit shy of the 50% the author is claiming.

Another obvious way to see what the impact is would be to look at a tool like http://www.internettrafficreport.com/30day.htm to see if the change to UDP and expected rise in bandwidth actually effects TCP communication. If it is as gloom and doom as the author makes it out to be, we should see a steady rise in lost packets as the P2P users upgrade to the new UDP defaulting version.

This report from March 2008 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,342988,00.html sites Arbor Networks (they bought out Ellacoya in early 2008) claims P2P traffic represents about a third of internet traffic.

I'm all for making a plan to be able to react if a problem is detected. But lets not get all worked up over someone's questionable theories.

-Rick

has been around for ages.. http://www.internettrafficreport.com/

Also of note for looking at metrics today: http://www.internettrafficreport.com/ http://www.internetpulse.net/

I saw the site last night when it popped up on MetaFilter. For those of you who know, what are the differences between something like this and what shows up on the Internet Traffic Report?

Iran's not offline. Many Iranian sites (www.president.ir, www.tu.ac.ir) work fine. But instead of routing across the Atlantic it's routing across the Pacific, through links between California and Singapore. It's slower than it should be, but it's working.

To be fair, router1.iust.ac.ir isn't responding for me either. Oddly, though, www.iust.ac.ir responds fine. And VisualRoute is having no trouble with router1.iust.ac.ir.

ITR has only a single node in the Middle East, so it's not really going to tell us much about this picture.

Let's get a bit of perspective here.

The internet Health Report shows that connectivity to Iran is down. It's Really only showing connectivity to a single Router is down.
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm
As of this time it's also showing Indonesia is down.

This site has a great writeup from the past several days regarding the cable break
http://www.renesys.com/blog/

Tin Foils hats are appropriate at times. I'm not sure this is one of those times.
Of course.. I thought the first plane was an accident..............

According to the same source, it looks like Florida must have fallen off the edge of the world again! Quick, call in the Navy, wait, they are too busy in the middle east cutting communication lines... I love how the post talks about Iran being complete disconnected, and do you know what the source is? The Internet Traffic report, where if you look on their website, they list Iran being off-line as well as Florida and Germany. So the source is interesting but in no way a definitive source for making the statement that Iran is disconnected. Take a look for your self. (http://www.internettrafficreport.com/details.htm)

Uh oh. It looks like Africa, Germany, and Columbia are gone too.

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/europe.htm
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/samerica.htm

Out of curiosity, I wonder how much traffic ITR and similar sites generate when determining if a router/site is up or not.

Uh oh. It looks like Africa, Germany, and Columbia are gone too.

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/europe.htm
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/samerica.htm

Out of curiosity, I wonder how much traffic ITR and similar sites generate when determining if a router/site is up or not.

Iran has shown a connection of 0 for the past week or so. That doesn't mean a cable was cut does it? Just means that you cannot ping that one router. Last time I checked Iran had more than 1 router.

Also look at this.
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm

Does that mean Florida is offline? No it just means you cannot communicate with one of their routers.

According to Internet Traffic Report the Tehran node has been down for few days.

this author actually dug a bit deeper and found a trail that leads from the owners of most of these internet cables all the way back to some very, very large companies in the U.S. and in the U.K. Which companies you ask? Who is behind this?

Well, that's the topic for my next post. You'll have to subscribe to my RSS feed and stay tuned for my findings. Don't worry, the wait will be short.

According to this link, Iran is incommunicado:
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm

It could simply be that the administration does not want the lay persian man to stream the invasion on the net, and wait for the MSM to put its spin on it.

Pretty obvious, isn't it?

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm

Looks like Iran is the one loosing *all* internet access... a pure coincidence, I'm sure...

Internet Traffic watch:

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm

India is hanging by a thread,
and Iran is offline.
Did you know Colombia is offline too?
Florida? ( well, actually, who cares about that...)

Its kinda silly, with redundancy, the map of the world looks like a loop. Cut it in the middle, and you can still go around the other side, albet slowly. What about Satilite uplinks? Bolians CA hasnt a hope in hell of getting DSL, yet, their satilite works pretty fast, but there is a 6,000ms lag.

Wow, so is Colombia http://www.internettrafficreport.com/samerica.htm Wonder if it's related.

Two in the Mediterranean, another between Suez and Dubai somewhere, which is not in the Mediterranean at all.
The nation of Iran appears to be entirely disconnected from the Internet by these events: http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm

I'm not really sure how accurate this is regarding Tehran being completely dead. For some reason, it shows Florida being at 0 also, but that is where I'm writing from.

Seeing as submarine cables do occasionally get cut by forces of nature and the odd unfortunately laid anchor, it's hard to tell whether these go in the oops or "oops" category...

Then again, this certainly is no communications blackout. Slowdown, yes; troublesome and costly, yes, somewhat. Even though Internet Traffic Report indicates router1.iust.ac.ir as unreachable, www.iust.ac.ir is currently reachable, at least from northern Europe. I don't know about other connectivity, though.

According this Florida is completely disconnected too: http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm/

Pardin if this is a stupid question, but looking through the site...it shows a router in Florida is down. Am I reading this correctly? Again sorry if this is a stupid question.

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/history/111.htm

According to ITR Florida is also "out" and presumably under attack
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm

Currently the Florida router is listed at 0 as well...does this mean that the US is going to attack Iran and Florida? No, it just means "s--- happens". Not everything is the result of black helicopters...

It looks like Iran has completely lost Internet connectivity.

Using the internet traffic report site, I can see at this time that Florida has 100% packet loss, too. Creepy.

Correct. I mean, based on the site, Florida would apparently also have no connectivity (as of 16:30 EST).

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/history/267.htm

Tehran flatlined. Not much impact on Europe, or Africa,
but...where is their redundancy?

I am willing to put the blame on...
a...

Internet Disconnection Device, known as a BackHoe!

And here it is in graph form

This article is wrong and frankly stupid. The lower 48 has 100% broadband access. Whether or not people want to pay for it is another matter. The truth is that dialup is good enough for most people because the parts of the internet people are interested in reside in the US and the backbone works well. Going to websites in Japan suck even with broadband, so maybe it's the world that lags. Here is a link: http://www.internettrafficreport.com/ . The US has an average response time of 131ms, Europe 252ms, Asia 278ms, so twice as fast basically.

On the Internet Traffic Report website you can click on Asia and see where the current congestion and outages are. Scroll down to the bottom and you can see these graphs, too:

• Traffic Index,
• Response Time, and
• Packet Loss

These plots give a 24-hour window on the situation. It it's easy to see when things started getting shaken up (bad pun intended).

On the Internet Traffic Report website you can click on Asia and see where the current congestion and outages are. Scroll down to the bottom and you can see these graphs, too:

• Traffic Index,
• Response Time, and
• Packet Loss

These plots give a 24-hour window on the situation. It it's easy to see when things started getting shaken up (bad pun intended).

On the Internet Traffic Report website you can click on Asia and see where the current congestion and outages are. Scroll down to the bottom and you can see these graphs, too:

• Traffic Index,
• Response Time, and
• Packet Loss

These plots give a 24-hour window on the situation. It it's easy to see when things started getting shaken up (bad pun intended).

On the Internet Traffic Report website you can click on Asia and see where the current congestion and outages are. Scroll down to the bottom and you can see these graphs, too:

• Traffic Index,
• Response Time, and
• Packet Loss

These plots give a 24-hour window on the situation. It it's easy to see when things started getting shaken up (bad pun intended).

On the Internet Traffic Report website you can click on Asia and see where the current congestion and outages are. Scroll down to the bottom and you can see these graphs, too:

• Traffic Index,
• Response Time, and
• Packet Loss

These plots give a 24-hour window on the situation. It it's easy to see when things started getting shaken up (bad pun intended).

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm

Anyone got the skinny?

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/main.htm

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/main.htm http://isc.sans.org/