test content
Logo
What is the Arc Client?
Install Arc
Did Cryptic stop using Cogent?
ovrkyl
Member Posts: 309 Arc User
Does anyone know if Cryptic stopped using Cogent?
Had massive issues the past day or two (worse than normal lately, if that's possible) with really bad ping times on tracerts through Cogent Hell contributing to SERVER NOT RESPONDING and DCs.
Checked my tracert tonight though, due to a DC on login, and the route is way different. No sign of Cogent. Took a different path through ANS Communications and Internap Network Services Corporation networks. As Cogent's network status claims all's well, makes me wonder if Cryptic finally dumped ol' Cogent. Here's hoping...
Yes, I posted my tracerts and issues in the bug forums, but I'm just wondering if anyone has info on this development.
Had massive issues the past day or two (worse than normal lately, if that's possible) with really bad ping times on tracerts through Cogent Hell contributing to SERVER NOT RESPONDING and DCs.
Checked my tracert tonight though, due to a DC on login, and the route is way different. No sign of Cogent. Took a different path through ANS Communications and Internap Network Services Corporation networks. As Cogent's network status claims all's well, makes me wonder if Cryptic finally dumped ol' Cogent. Here's hoping...
Yes, I posted my tracerts and issues in the bug forums, but I'm just wondering if anyone has info on this development.
This is my signature. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
Post edited by ovrkyl on
0
Comments
If people don't see the 38.111.x.x, then no more Cogent. I'll remote in after this meeting and check.
Fleet Defiant Kinetic Heavy Fire Support | Fleet Manticore Kinetic Strike Ship | Tactical Command Kinetic Siege Refit | Fleet Defiant Quantum Phase Escort | Fleet Valiant Kinetic Heavy Fire Support
Turning the Galaxy-X into a Torpedo Dreadnought & torpedo tutorial, with written torpedo guide.
"A good weapon and a great strategy will win you many battles." - Marshall
I knew using Kinetics would be playing the game on hard mode, but what I didn't realize was how bad the deck is stacked against Kinetics.
Also worth noting is when logging in to a character, the spawn zone on rare occasion happens to be an object which gets you stuck, or forces you into an area that you shouldn't be with no way back without changing instance, assuming there is an open instance to change to.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
That could explain why I've for the most part been able to play again.
If they performed a "hot swap", you'd see SNR's and dc's for certain groups going through the old 38.111.x.x
Looks like they did some clean-up and a new backbone:
us1.proxy.crypticstudios.com [208.95.184.152]
8 20 ms 19 ms 19 ms mai-b1-link.telia.net [62.115.40.145]
9 40 ms 39 ms 38 ms ash-bb4-link.telia.net [62.115.141.80]
10 45 ms 92 ms 79 ms nyk-bb2-link.telia.net [62.115.138.26]
11 50 ms 51 ms 51 ms bost-b1-link.telia.net [80.91.248.193]
12 52 ms 53 ms 53 ms internap-ic-304640-bost-b1.c.telia.net [62.115.38.110]
13 54 ms 54 ms 55 ms border11.te8-1-bbnet2.bsn.pnap.net [63.251.128.104]
14 63 ms 53 ms 53 ms perfectworldent-4.border11.bsn.pnap.net [216.52.61.78]
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 52 ms 51 ms 51 ms us1.proxy.crypticstudios.com [208.95.184.152]
****************************************************************
patchserver.crypticstudios.com [208.95.185.41]
8 19 ms 19 ms 17 ms mai-b1-link.telia.net [62.115.40.145]
9 40 ms 38 ms 37 ms ash-bb4-link.telia.net [62.115.141.125]
10 43 ms 43 ms 42 ms nyk-bb2-link.telia.net [213.155.130.74]
11 47 ms 47 ms 47 ms bost-b1-link.telia.net [80.91.248.193]
12 64 ms 51 ms 53 ms internap-ic-304640-bost-b1.c.telia.net [62.115.38.110]
13 52 ms 52 ms 69 ms border11.te8-1-bbnet2.bsn.pnap.net [63.251.128.104]
14 60 ms 54 ms 53 ms perfectworldent-4.border11.bsn.pnap.net [216.52.61.78]
15 52 ms 51 ms 51 ms patchserverrebirth.crypticstudios.com [208.95.185.41]
****************************************************************
I kept older results, and no more Cogent in the mix from my ISP (BrightHouse to RoadRunner hand-off).
Fleet Defiant Kinetic Heavy Fire Support | Fleet Manticore Kinetic Strike Ship | Tactical Command Kinetic Siege Refit | Fleet Defiant Quantum Phase Escort | Fleet Valiant Kinetic Heavy Fire Support
Turning the Galaxy-X into a Torpedo Dreadnought & torpedo tutorial, with written torpedo guide.
"A good weapon and a great strategy will win you many battles." - Marshall
I knew using Kinetics would be playing the game on hard mode, but what I didn't realize was how bad the deck is stacked against Kinetics.
7 18 ms 23 ms 15 ms bbr01sgnwmi-bue-5.sgnw.mi.charter.com [96.34.0.55]
8 21 ms 19 ms 20 ms be4309.rcr21.dtw04.atlas.cogentco.com [38.122.60.49]
9 24 ms 23 ms 23 ms be2006.ccr21.cle04.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.5.9]
10 36 ms 35 ms 43 ms be2009.ccr21.alb02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.25.89]
11 39 ms 39 ms 40 ms be2299.ccr21.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.43.9]
12 40 ms 39 ms 43 ms te0-0-1-0.rcr12.b002133-1.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.4.42]
13 41 ms 42 ms 41 ms 38.104.252.70
14 44 ms 43 ms 43 ms border11.te7-1-bbnet1.bsn.pnap.net [63.251.128.41]
15 41 ms 53 ms 53 ms perfectworldent-4.border11.bsn.pnap.net [216.52.61.78]
16 40 ms 44 ms 41 ms patchserverrebirth.crypticstudios.com [208.95.185.41]
7 38 ms 39 ms 38 ms Opal-ge-2.2.0.mpr1.lhr3.above.net [213.161.78.213]
8 113 ms 112 ms 112 ms ae3.cr1.lga5.us.zip.zayo.com [64.125.21.205]
9 114 ms 113 ms 113 ms ae7.mpr3.bos2.us.zip.zayo.com [64.125.21.225]
10 118 ms 118 ms 118 ms 208.184.110.70.IPYX-072053-002-ZYO.above.net [208.184.110.70]
11 113 ms 114 ms 115 ms border11.te8-1-bbnet2.bsn.pnap.net [63.251.128.104]
12 114 ms 125 ms 125 ms perfectworldent-4.border11.bsn.pnap.net [216.52.61.78]
13 113 ms 112 ms 111 ms patchserverrebirth.crypticstudios.com [208.95.185.41]
Trace complete.
thats from my end. no sign of cogent at all.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
http://www.dslreports.com/routerwatch/hbg-bb2-link.telia.net
I'll be monitoring that, as that's one of my hops to Cryptic.
internap-ic-304640-bost-b1.c.telia.net is on the Boston Exchange.
I'm just guessing here, but...
Partial load-balancing? Partial routing QoL improvements? Partial cleaning up of the physical and virtual net's between PWE and Cryptic? Cheaper infrastructure budget and better management on their end of the network? Better quality communication/routing between data centers?
I haven't had time to drill down through everything, but it looks like PWE/Cryptic reorganized their network on their side and set up some sort of unified private network further upstream to handle the traffic better for all of their services. Some of us who were coming in from Cogent are now pathed through other networks. This is could be a good thing, as they won't necessarily have to rely on one major backbone feeding them the traffic in one physical location. I'm guessing it might give them more options to shop around or make a deal w/ other backbones to feed them data, and reroute traffic as needed via backbones if one particular one has issues for whatever reason?
I'll need to get info from other people who were also seeing Cogent prior to PWE or Cryptic networks at Boston.
Really would like to talk to one of their network engineers and see what their roadmap is going forward.
Fleet Defiant Kinetic Heavy Fire Support | Fleet Manticore Kinetic Strike Ship | Tactical Command Kinetic Siege Refit | Fleet Defiant Quantum Phase Escort | Fleet Valiant Kinetic Heavy Fire Support
Turning the Galaxy-X into a Torpedo Dreadnought & torpedo tutorial, with written torpedo guide.
"A good weapon and a great strategy will win you many battles." - Marshall
I knew using Kinetics would be playing the game on hard mode, but what I didn't realize was how bad the deck is stacked against Kinetics.
From Thu28May2015@0328±PDT (pre-maintenance):
From Fri29May2015@0013±PDT (post-maintenance): Changed hops in yellow.
From Fri29May2015@1430±PDT (now):
Damn, and I thought they'd gotten rid of them. Looks like your theories may be correct, darkknightucf. But at least there's a noticeable improvement, so far.