Packet Loss

I am getting packet loss.

WinMtr shows 50 percent loss at Internap-NE.gar1.SanFrancisco1.Level3.net

Various stops along the way in Dallas, Los Angeles, and San Jose show 60, 31, 37, 19 and 13 percent packet loss.

This is using data.agni.lindenlab.com as the other end of the test

The packet loss indicator in SL is showing red.

What does this indicate, can these be real figures or is the winmtr program screwy?

This is by far the worst packet loss problem I've had in the last 2 and a half years.

Other use of the internet seems to work alright.

Is there any way to get RoadRunner to make your datastream follow a different path? I would like my packets to avoid the entire state of Texas.

0 -192.168.2.1 - 0
0 -10.74.32.1 - 0
0 -First Hop to Roadrunner - 0
0 - son1-1-0.hstqtxl3-rtr1.texas.rr.com - 0
0 - 4.79.88.21 - 0
70 -ae-5-5.ebr1.Dallas1.Level3.net - 70
26 - ae-1-100.ebr2.Dallas1.Level3.net - 26
28 - ae-3.ebr2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net - 28
16 - ae-1-100.ebr1.LosAngeles1.Level3.net - 16
17 - ae-2.ebr1.SanJose1.Level3.net - 17
0 - ae-1-53.bbr1.SanJose1.Level3.net - 0
0 - as-0-0.mp2.SanFrancisco1.Level3.net - 0
0 - ge-7-0-0.gar1.SanFrancisco1.Level3.net - 0
75 - 4.71.44.6 - 75
2 - border1.ge1-1-bbnet1.sfo002.pnap.net - 2
0 - data.agni.lindenlab.com - 0

The above are results from winmtr.

Are the 70, 26, 28, 16, 17 figures really packet loss values or is winmtr showing bad values?

The 75 percent packet loss at 4.71.44.6 - that is in LL's ISP's end of things, right?
and the 2 percent at border1.ge1-1-bbnet1.sfo002.pnap.net - that is LL's bailiwick, isn't it?

I have posted this on another link also-

ANNNNDDDDD!!!!
Have you experienced a bandwidth spike, pause, back, spike, lock up so bad your kicked off your connection? Mind you I dont just mean SL connection. I am talking cable( provider)connection.
Ever since 10.4 I havent had a solid connection. It got better after 10.6 for a short time then came back with the next update.
I thought it was my end. I have replaced net card, updated; drivers, cable modem, all viruse checks, removed caches, defraged, reinstalled SL. Then I find out others are the same problem.
There is no patteren to this either. Yesterday the only problems I experienced were fast crashes to desktop.
I have a very good PC. I have had the net provider come and check my lines. In a nut shell its NOT MY END.
Whats also frustrating is how many of us are going through this and think its our systems. We go out and spend money needlessly to find out whats going on.
I own a sim. Im reallysick of paying $200 a month to be kicked off every so often.
FIX THIS !!!!!

I have not logged into the game today, but last night my lag/packet loss was huge for hours at a time, and I was like one of three people in the entire sim. This is the first time it happened to me in that sim, so not sure what was going on. Clearly others are having problems too so something is going on.

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What is one to make of values like this?
70 -ae-5-5.ebr1.Dallas1.Level3.net - 70
26 - ae-1-100.ebr2.Dallas1.Level3.net - 26
28 - ae-3.ebr2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net - 28
16 - ae-1-100.ebr1.LosAngeles1.Level3.net - 16
17 - ae-2.ebr1.SanJose1.Level3.net - 17

The above shouldn't be the result of anything LL or LL's ISP is doing. but they are utterly terrible figures according to my understanding of such matters. Am I really in need of getting on the phone at my expense with engineers at 5 places that I am not a customer of and telling them to fix their defective routers?

75 - 4.71.44.6 - 75
2 - border1.ge1-1-bbnet1.sfo002.pnap.net - 2

These two above may be in LL's and LL's ISP's bailiwick. The 2 percent packet loss figure is in the ballpark of what I see in SL's statistics display at times.

I'd be interested in hearing from people who do traces with various software or at sites like broadbandspeedtest.com to see if there seems to be a problem with packet loss at the sites above.