Tim Cook: 'I'd call what's going on in fondleslabs a speed bump' Time Warner Cable did not have a good week this week. A number of folks came out over the week to tell the Federal Communications Commission that they don’t like the idea of the company merging with Comcast. And in the middle of all that, the firm suffered a massive outage that downed a number of big cities on both the East and …
I see no evidence of a Time Warner backbone, I am on Time Warner in Wisconsin, which puts me in the North Central part of the US. If I send something from here to Los Angeles, The data goes from here to Milwaukee then to Chicago. In Chicago it gets dumped xo.net for a couple of hops, and then is dumped onto AT&T, still in Chicago. My best description of AT&T's backbone is that it is very much a laggy-ass system, For example, each hop the data takes from here through the 2nd hop on xo.net are all 17ms or less. Every single AT&T hop is between 89ms and 92ms on good days, and over 100ms on bad days. So the first 7 hops are all 17ms and less and the last 8 hops, 7 of which are AT&T are all between 89ms and 92ms. What does that tell you?
So where is this mythical Time Warner backbone?
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