HOLY MOTHERFUCKING ZOMBIE JESUS

[rmd]

HEY, RCN, IS IT SO GODDAMNED DIFFICULT FOR YOU TO KEEP A GODDAMNED TCP SESSION OPEN FOR EVEN JUST FIVE WHOLE FUCKING MINUTES WITHOUT A RESET? HUH? DO YOU *WANT* ME TO DRIVE OVER THERE AND START FEEDING PEOPLE FEET-FIRST INTO A FUCKING WOODCHIPPER? HUH? IT'S *NOT* *THAT* *DIFFICULT*, PEOPLE. PACKETS GO IN. PACKETS GO OUT. DO NOT DROP THEM ON THE FUCKING FLOOR.

HERE'S A PICTURE OF WHY I HATE RCN

Comments

[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

. . . wow. That was INSPIRED.

I think I'm a little turned on.

[also-huey.livejournal.com]

Don't sugarcoat it; tell us how you REALLY feel.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

I see you haven't lost any of your "ripping network providers a new one" fu.

Best of luck.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

They're probably throwing bogus TCP RESETs in hopes of thwarting P2P file sharing. For which they deserve to be ripped a new one. And damn, you are so very good at it.

[muffyjo]

Go get em!

[rmd.livejournal.com]

Maybe, but I don't think that's the issue. I'm seeing packet loss for straight-up ICMP. When the packets go thru, it's good performance and low latency. It's just the packets keep not going thru.

[dfjdejulio.livejournal.com]

What's an RCN?

[rmd.livejournal.com]

My cable internet provider.

Hunh

[drwex]

I've had some problems with net dropping on our home RCN connection but so far as traceroute can tell it wasn't local - it was their switching center in NYC that was horked.

What were you trying to do that they kept dropping the ball on/

Re: Hunh

[rmd.livejournal.com]

at various points, ssh, http, and team fortress 2.

Re: Hunh

[drwex]

what tool did you use to generate that visualization?

Re: Hunh

[rmd.livejournal.com]

pingplotter. it's a windows program i like.

[achinhibitor.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it's cheaper to provision the network for 70% of the peak load than for 100% of the peak load. (30% packet loss, ugh!)

[rmd.livejournal.com]

if that's what's going on, i'd be fine. this is not the behavior of a correctly-functioning network that is engineered for 70% nominal load.