10.160.33.1

Since I'm periodically getting slow connections while downloading certain files, I ran a tracert to see if I could figure out what is going on. Every hop is much longer than it should be, but the one that confuses me most is the second in the results shown:

Tracing route to a1700.g.akamai.net [23.15.7.169]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms BRONZESYCAMORE [192.168.1.1]
2 216 ms 202 ms 203 ms 10.33.160.1
3 183 ms 231 ms 188 ms COX-68-12-19-186-static.coxinet.net [68.12.19.18
6]
4 215 ms 206 ms 224 ms COX-68-12-9-188-static.coxinet.net [68.12.9.188]

5 162 ms 164 ms 187 ms COX-68-12-19-4-static.coxinet.net [68.12.19.4]
6 201 ms 231 ms 203 ms 68.1.2.121
7 213 ms 218 ms 217 ms ae0-60g.cr1.dfw1.us.nlayer.net [69.31.63.125]
8 243 ms 232 ms 217 ms xe-3-3-1.cr1.atl1.us.nlayer.net [69.22.142.24]
9 253 ms 217 ms 235 ms xe-0-1-0.cr2.iad1.us.nlayer.net [69.22.142.106]

10 248 ms 285 ms 268 ms ae2-30g.ar2.iad1.us.nlayer.net [69.31.31.186]
11 231 ms 245 ms 217 ms as20940.xe-2-0-2.ar2.iad1.us.nlayer.net [69.31.3
0.74]
12 232 ms 210 ms 253 ms a23-15-7-169.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com [23.1
5.7.169]

It is sandwiched in between my network and my ISP. I tried to Google it, but found nothing that actually identifies it. The only thing between the network and the ISP is my router, but I don't recall that IP being used. Does anyone know what it is?

The second hop is the CMTS or headend of your ISP.

Cable modem termination system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

With numbers like that there is either a problem with it of the node you're on is overloaded. Only thing you can do is contact Cox and get them to fix it, there is nothing you can do on your end.

stormy13 said:

The second hop is the CMTS or headend of your ISP.

Cable modem termination system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

With numbers like that there is either a problem with it of the node you're on is overloaded. Only thing you can do is contact Cox and get them to fix it, there is nothing you can do on your end.

Thanks, it doesn't surprise me that it is my ISP, I kind of thought that it was anyway. It does raise a couple more questions...am I correct to assume that the all of the slow hops after that one are caused by the bottleneck at the CMTS? I don't know that it would do any good to contact Cox about it, because I feel that they are doing it on purpose, because they dislike the amount of data usage of my account. It seems to only occur when I'm using certain websites, and even then either on a random basis, or after I have gone a ways into a series of downloads from it.

Kari that 10.x.x.x is perfectly normal and always seen on a cable connection,

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C:\Users\Richard>tracert 23.15.7.169

Tracing route to a23-15-7-169.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com [23.15.7.169]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms 10.126.111.1
3 14 ms 11 ms 11 ms 69.63.242.89
4 22 ms 8 ms 7 ms greensboro.cable.teksavvy.com [69.165.216.46]
5 12 ms 9 ms 12 ms greensboro.cable.teksavvy.com [24.246.55.113]
6 11 ms 24 ms 15 ms tge11-3.fr4.yyz.llnw.net [208.111.134.241]
7 36 ms 26 ms 25 ms tge1-3.fr4.ord.llnw.net [69.28.172.69]
8 27 ms 28 ms 27 ms TenGigE0-0-4-0.GW5.CHI13.ALTER.NET [152.179.92.1
]
9 28 ms 26 ms 27 ms 0.xe-3-1-3.XL3.CHI13.ALTER.NET [152.63.70.122]
10 45 ms 44 ms 44 ms 0.xe-7-0-2.XL3.IAD8.ALTER.NET [152.63.32.230]
11 45 ms 45 ms 46 ms 0.TenGigE0-4-4-0.GW1.IAD8.ALTER.NET [152.63.33.4
1]
12 46 ms 43 ms 63 ms akamai.customer.alter.net [152.179.50.170]
13 44 ms 44 ms 46 ms a23-15-7-169.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com [23.1
5.7.169]

Trace complete.

C:\Users\Richard>

am I correct to assume that the all of the slow hops after that one are caused by the bottleneck at the CMTS?

Yes it is. Got any neighbors on Cox as well? If so and you can get them to test and see if they are also getting the high ping at the CMTS.

It's not that it isn't there, it is that Comcast has it configured so that the CMTS doesn't show in a tracert.