It looks like the culprit is a network provider called verio in california with a steady 10% packet loss across two hops....wondering if anyone else who has traced has noticed this.
Report for sim762.agni.lindenlab.com [69.25.105.194]
Analysis: 'sim762.agni.lindenlab.com' was found in 11 hops (TTL=52).
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| Hop | %Loss | IP Address | Node Name | Location | Tzone | ms | Graph | Network |
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| 0 | | 205.234.111.204 | DTG316.visualware.com | * | | | | Defender Technologies Group, LLC DEFENDER-1 |
| 1 | | 205.234.111.129 | r03-8.iad.defenderhosting.com | ?Ashburn, VA, USA | -05:00 | 0 | x | Defender Technologies Group, LLC DEFENDER-1 |
| 2 | | 205.234.111.17 | r01.iad.defenderhosting.com | ?Ashburn, VA, USA | -05:00 | 0 | x | Defender Technologies Group, LLC DEFENDER-1 |
| 3 | | 63.218.94.5 | ge9-11.br02.ash01.pccwbtn.net | Ashburn, VA, USA | -05:00 | 0 | x | Beyond The Network America, Inc. BTN-CIDR5 |
| 4 | | 206.223.115.12 | ge-2-3-0.r01.asbnva01.us.bb.verio.net | Ashburn, VA, USA | -05:00 | 0 | x | Equinix, Inc. EQUINIX-IX-ASH |
| 5 | 10 | 129.250.2.60 | p16-0-1-2.r20.asbnva01.us.bb.verio.net | Ashburn, VA, USA | -05:00 | 0 | x | Verio, Inc. VRIO-129-250 |
| 6 | 10 | 129.250.2.24 | p16-1-1-0.r20.snjsca04.us.bb.verio.net | San Jose, CA, USA | -08:00 | 77 | x- | Verio, Inc. VRIO-129-250 |
| 7 | | 129.250.2.73 | xe-0-2-0.r21.snjsca04.us.bb.verio.net | San Jose, CA, USA | -08:00 | 77 | x | Verio, Inc. VRIO-129-250 |
| 8 | | 129.250.2.209 | xe-1-1.r03.snjsca04.us.bb.verio.net | San Jose, CA, USA | -08:00 | 77 | x | Verio, Inc. VRIO-129-250 |
| 9 | | 128.241.219.6 | ge-3-3.r03.snjsca04.us.ce.verio.net | San Jose, CA, USA | -08:00 | 69 | x | Verio, Inc. VRIO-128-241 |
| 10 | | 63.251.63.65 | border1.ge2-1-bbnet2.sfo002.pnap.net | ?Seattle, WA, USA | -08:00 | 69 | x | InterNAP Network Services, PNAP-SFO PNAP-SFO-INAP-BB-1 |
| 11 | | 69.25.105.194 | sim762.agni.lindenlab.com | ?San Francisco, CA | | 69 | x | Linden Lab INAP-SFO-LINDEN-0959 |
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