Southeast Michigan. Speed began to ramp down on Saturday March 3.

The first noticeable issue was that we were dropping video packets like crazy to our server in San Francisco and our site traffic dropped to nothing.

Second symptom was our email server (in Utah) began giving 500 error codes.

Over this entire period ITR was showing a north America rating of 70, 400 ms pings and 38% packet loss.

Now, what I did, assuming that this was related to the storms down south and east was track the issue to see where this was happening. This table is from our location in Ann Arbor to various servers.

Our benchmark is 20 mbps down, 1.75 mbps up. Our primary node is fiber optic. One of the Comcast guys when we were having problems, kicked up the db in one of the line amplifiers for us a couple of years ago, so we have excellent speeds.

Note how weird this was. Not normal at all. Upload speed kept rising!

To speed up speed down

Toledo......5.5 mbps/1.1 mbps

Chicago.....4.7 mbps/22 kbps

Seattle..... .4 mbps/2 kbps

Ensenada,MX 3.5 mbps/1.1 mbps

Note that the highest distance speeds were to a server in Mexico.