I received this email today from cobaltrack.com:

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Hi,

Thanks for being a loyal customer of Cobalt Racks. As of today, we have connected additional bandwidth with UUnet. This is the first of three additional pipes we are planning to add.

You should see a great improvement in the server speed!

At the same time, you might see an INCREASE in your TRAFFIC. In the past, you might have had customers who gave up on connection. Today, all of them WILL be connected QUICKLY and your traffic per month might go up.

Thanks again.

Tom Surmiak
Sales
Cobalt Racks

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Looks like they finally got their act together here. Although my home connection still goes over there crappy cable and wireless link but my office one goes over there new UUnet link and I get pings on average 80 ms from London with no packet loss, definate improvement from 150-250 ms with up to 25% packet loss! I may consider staying now after my 6 months contract runs out.

Could people please post there location, ping and traceroute's to my site so I can get a broad idea of how many people will actually go through this new pipe.

Many thanks.

heavystorm.com

is the site, forgot to mention it.

Originally posted by louey
Could people please post there location, ping and traceroute's to my site so I can get a broad idea of how many people will actually go through this new pipe.

Many thanks.

Here ya go... three dial-up wholesalers:
05/14/01 17:52:12 Spade Log
05/14/01 17:52:16 Fast traceroute heavystorm.com
Trace heavystorm.com (208.155.79.109) ...
1 4.48.152.15 125ms 125ms 109ms TTL: 0 (Resale_ConnecticutB1-1R7301.saturn.bbn.com ok)
2 4.48.152.2 110ms 110ms 125ms TTL: 0 (RE4-P20-WHIPPANY-MFS-R1.saturn.bbn.com ok)
3 204.166.36.206 125ms 125ms 110ms TTL: 0 (RE4-P20-R1-pvc2-Hub2.saturn.bbn.com ok)
4 4.24.64.109 109ms 125ms 109ms TTL: 0 (p6-1.washdc3-cr1.bbnplanet.net ok)
5 4.24.4.117 110ms 110ms 125ms TTL: 0 (so-2-1-0.washdc3-nbr1.bbnplanet.net ok)
6 4.24.4.170 125ms 140ms 109ms TTL: 0 (p7-0.washdc3-ba1.bbnplanet.net ok)
7 137.39.52.157 110ms 156ms 125ms TTL: 0 (ATM1-0.BR5.DCA8.ALTER.NET probable bogus rDNS: No DNS)
8 152.63.35.194 140ms 110ms 125ms TTL: 0 (0.so-3-1-0.XR2.DCA8.ALTER.NET ok)
9 146.188.162.181 125ms 109ms 109ms TTL: 0 (POS7-0.GW1.DCA8.ALTER.NET ok)
10 65.195.226.66 110ms 125ms 109ms TTL: 0 (visuallink-gw.customer.alter.net bogus rDNS: host not found [authoritative])
11 208.155.79.109 125ms 109ms 125ms TTL:245 (No rDNS)



05/14/01 17:53:41 Fast traceroute heavystorm.com
Trace heavystorm.com (208.155.79.109) ...
1 206.115.157.13 109ms 94ms 93ms TTL: 0 (tnt1.har1.da.uu.net ok)
2 207.76.21.3 110ms 110ms 94ms TTL: 0 (ar1.har1.da.uu.net ok)
3 137.39.42.1 109ms 109ms 110ms TTL: 0 (Fddi12-0-0.GW1.HAR1.ALTER.NET bogus rDNS: host not found [authoritative])
4 152.63.23.94 109ms 94ms 94ms TTL: 0 (154.ATM3-0.XR2.NYC1.ALTER.NET ok)
5 152.63.21.74 125ms 110ms 125ms TTL: 0 (194.at-1-2-0.TR2.NYC9.ALTER.NET ok)
6 152.63.10.73 109ms 109ms 109ms TTL: 0 (125.at-6-0-0.TR2.DCA8.ALTER.NET bogus rDNS: host not found [authoritative])
7 152.63.35.250 110ms 141ms 109ms TTL: 0 (0.so-2-0-0.XR2.DCA8.ALTER.NET ok)
8 146.188.162.181 109ms 110ms 110ms TTL: 0 (POS7-0.GW1.DCA8.ALTER.NET ok)
9 65.195.226.66 109ms 109ms 109ms TTL: 0 (visuallink-gw.customer.alter.net bogus rDNS: host not found [authoritative])
10 208.155.79.109 141ms * 109ms TTL:246 (No rDNS)

05/14/01 17:54:59 Fast traceroute heavystorm.com
Trace heavystorm.com (208.155.79.109) ...
1 209.247.22.117 156ms 125ms 125ms TTL: 0 (nas21.stm1.Level3.net ok)
2 63.215.22.3 125ms 125ms 110ms TTL: 0 (No rDNS)
3 64.159.0.101 125ms 109ms 109ms TTL: 0 (ge-6-0-1.mp2.Stamford1.level3.net ok)
4 209.247.8.9 141ms 125ms 109ms TTL: 0 (so-3-0-0.mp1.NewYork1.level3.net ok)
5 209.247.10.38 125ms 110ms 110ms TTL: 0 (pos8-0.core2.NewYork1.level3.net ok)
6 137.39.52.9 125ms 109ms 109ms TTL: 0 (ATM1-0.BR2.NYC9.ALTER.NET bogus rDNS: host not found [authoritative])
7 152.63.22.226 125ms 125ms 125ms TTL: 0 (0.at-6-1-0.XL1.NYC9.ALTER.NET ok)
8 152.63.23.138 125ms 937ms 110ms TTL: 0 (0.so-7-0-0.XR1.NYC9.ALTER.NET ok)
9 152.63.15.110 125ms 844ms 109ms TTL: 0 (0.so-4-0-0.TR1.NYC9.ALTER.NET ok)
10 152.63.9.197 125ms 735ms 125ms TTL: 0 (125.at-7-1-0.TR1.DCA8.ALTER.NET bogus rDNS: host not found [authoritative])
11 152.63.25.38 125ms 640ms 125ms TTL: 0 (0.so-5-0-0.XR1.DCA8.ALTER.NET ok)
12 146.188.162.177 125ms 563ms 141ms TTL: 0 (POS6-0.GW1.DCA8.ALTER.NET ok)
13 65.195.226.66 125ms 469ms 125ms TTL: 0 (visuallink-gw.customer.alter.net bogus rDNS: host not found [authoritative])
14 208.155.79.109 * * 125ms TTL:244 (No rDNS)
15 208.155.79.109 * 313ms TTL:244 (No rDNS)

Notice #2 from cobaltwacks.com CEO

Also in addition to the new bandwidth we ask that all customers please forget about our shotty past technical support, as well as cobalt raq 3i's passed off as 4's.
We have just bought out UUNet and will be utilizing their staff to insure you experience is only the best!

Cobaltwacks.com

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We have just bought out UUNet
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erm, i hope this means the "contracted out" UUNet, I mean UUNet is "fairly large" to be "bought" out by a company like Cobalt Rack, unless thay have a spare $400 Billion lying around we dont know about? lol :rolleyes:

Originally posted by xtstrike
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We have just bought out UUNet
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erm, i hope this means the "contracted out" UUNet, I mean UUNet is "fairly large" to be "bought" out by a company like Cobalt Rack, unless thay have a spare $400 Billion lying around we dont know about? lol :rolleyes:

This means nothing but a lovely joke :D , notice it's from cobaltWACKS..

grrrrr

It seems it slipped past me :eek:

looks like im going to have to drastically increase my coffee intake :)

Originally posted by xtstrike
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We have just bought out UUNet
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erm, i hope this means the "contracted out" UUNet, I mean UUNet is "fairly large" to be "bought" out by a company like Cobalt Rack, unless thay have a spare $400 Billion lying around we dont know about? lol :rolleyes:
May be they bougth some UUNet hardware?

woah did my joke fly right above everyones heads :(

i think it did, it flew right over mine until you pointed it out :) unless people thought it was a typo!!


cobalt wacks
cobalt racks

w and r are quite close!!

I got the exact same message from them over a year ago seems to me they are either very slow implementing this or they haven't changed a bit

And so do we.
Customers are talking about moving and they are really angry.
The biggest mistake we ever did was renting a server at Cobalt Racks:angry:
I'll never do it again.

The burstable speed is much better now too ...

ftp> get uumap.tar.Z
local: uumap.tar.Z remote: uumap.tar.Z
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for uumap.tar.Z (8520221 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
8520221 bytes received in 36.4 secs (2.3e+02 Kbytes/sec)

Thats 1.9 Mbits/s