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Routing issues with HE.net (NY → Miami) – Anyone else?
juniorrrrr
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in General
Hey everyone,
For the past 3 days, I've been seeing serious routing problems through HE.net — especially between New York and Miami.
Lots of packet loss, to the point that I can't even download a 1MB attachment from email right now.
Tests (MTR and iperf3) show high latency and packet loss on HE routers along the way, especially 198.32.118.57.
Is anyone else seeing issues on this path? Or maybe experiencing degraded performance with HE in general?
Thanks!
Comments
Why did you disable reverse DNS in this path? Packet loss along the way does not prove anything as the control plane may be overloaded or rate-limited without impacting the data plane.
HE sucks and shouldn't be part of any network more important than a hobbynet, more news at 11
Depends
No it doesn't, they're easily the worst carrier on the market.
Can you elaborate? What makes them worse than, say, Cogent?
Anyone who actually has negotiated and managed a bgp network with at least 2-3 figures in Gbps knows which is more useful. While cogent is usually seen as a bad example of a greedy corpo just because "can't peer with HE", they still come out to be a much more useful network to have transit from for most small scale hosting companies (at least)