[NCLUG] AT&T: 12.244.71 subnet causing lag

[Corey Keasling]

Hello,

I got my connection back Saturday evening and everything seemed just as 
brisk as always.  However, last night I started noticing that routers/switches 
on the 12.244.71/24 (?) subnet were slowing things down (most of my packets 
pass through these on the third hop).  In particular,
traceroute told me that the system 12.244.71.141 was adding an average of 
950ms to every packet that passed through it!  Other system on 12.244.71.* 
were adding a minimum of 200ms, depending on which one my packets passed 
through on their way out of ip.att.net.  I miss 50ms ping times.  I can't use 
a remote shell if it takes 1 second to make the round trip.  My traceroute 
logs are at home, so I could be wrong on the IP addressed.  Is anyone else 
seeing this behavior?

I emailed AT&T customer abuse, but (surprise, surprise), I haven't heard 
anything from them yet.  Of course, I mentioned ssh in the letter so I doubt 
I'll get anything back besides "we don't support ssh".

Corey
No, I will not fix your computer.