Re: TWT - Comcast congestion

2010-12-01 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:59:25PM -0600, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: I believe that's what I said. To be perfectly clear, what I'm saying is: * Comcast acted first by demanding fees * Level 3 went public first by whining about it after they agreed to pay * Comcast was

Re: TWT - Comcast congestion

2010-12-01 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 06:31:39AM -0800, Leo Bicknell wrote: In a message written on Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:59:25PM -0600, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: I believe that's what I said. To be perfectly clear, what I'm saying is: * Comcast acted first by demanding fees * Level 3 went

Re: TWT - Comcast congestion

2010-12-01 Thread Leo Bicknell
Comcast has released additional details publically. Of course, this is their side of the story, so I wouldn't believe it hook line and sinker but it helps fill in the gaps. http://blog.comcast.com/2010/11/comcasts-letter-to-fcc-on-level-3.html -- Leo Bicknell - bickn...@ufp.org - CCIE

Re: TWT - Comcast congestion

2010-12-01 Thread Joly MacFie
I've collected my fav links (inc. nanog posts) on this topic on http://www.isoc-ny.org/p2/?p=1504. If there are issues with my brief explanation please let me know. j On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Leo Bicknell bickn...@ufp.org wrote: Comcast has released additional details publically.

Re: TWT - Comcast congestion

2010-11-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:29:31 -0500 (EST) From: Jon Lewis jle...@lewis.org Anyone else seeing this or know the cause? 5: ash1-pr2-xe-2-3-0-0.us.twtelecom.net (66.192.244.214) 29.758ms 6: pos-3-11-0-0-cr01.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.86.145) asymm 11 846.582ms 7:

Re: TWT - Comcast congestion

2010-11-30 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:45:53AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: We have seen the same thing with other carriers. As far as I can see, Comcast is congested, at least at Equinix in San Jose. Since this is all over private connections (at least in our case), the fabric is not an issue. Maybe

Re: TWT - Comcast congestion

2010-11-30 Thread Jeffrey Lyon
I would have said OK, and then we'll go ahead and renew your contract with us at current price + $X/Mbps. Jeff On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:45:53AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: We have seen the same thing with other

Re: TWT - Comcast congestion

2010-11-30 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 08:12:23PM -0600, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: The part that I find most interesting about this current debacle is how Comcast has managed to convince people that this is a peering dispute, when in reality Comcast and Level3 have never been peers

Re: TWT - Comcast congestion

2010-11-30 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 06:45:57PM -0800, Leo Bicknell wrote: Actually it appears to be Level 3 who fired the first PR salvo running to the FCC, if the date stamps on the statements are right. So it's really Level 3 framing as a net neutrality peering issue the fact that Comcast balked at

Re: TWT - Comcast congestion

2010-11-30 Thread Drew Linsalata
While its pile on Comcast night, I'll add that that the Comcast peers with Cablevision Lightpath are also a mess in New York, Ashburn and Chicago right now. Have been for at least the last hour or two. According to Cablevision we were not the first to report it and the feedback I have from them

Re: TWT - Comcast congestion

2010-11-30 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 09:24:47PM -0600, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: I never said otherwise. The PR is pretty clear: Level 3 says that Comcast, their TRANSIT CUSTOMER, demanded that Level 3 pay them because of a ratio imbalance. Level 3, not wanting to cause massive

Re: TWT - Comcast congestion

2010-11-30 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 07:53:25PM -0800, Leo Bicknell wrote: I'm not privy to the deal, but I will point out as reported it makes no sense, so there is something else going on here. This is where both sids are hiding the real truth. I suspect it's one of two scenarios: - Comcast

Re: TWT - Comcast congestion

2010-11-30 Thread Piotr Nowak
On Nov 30, 2010, at 9:12 PM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: I don't know about their connection to TWT, but Comcast has definitely been running their transits congested. The most obvious one from recent months is Tata, which appears to be massively congested for upwards of 12 hours a day