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To: tiquer who wrote (409)	10/23/1998 12:44:00 PM
From: Randy Ellingson	Respond to of 7772

[OT] Roger- That tracert command is very cool. I noticed from mine that all the qwest links were very fast. Good for them anyway. 1 1865 ms 1706 ms 1431 ms serf-nb.nrel.gov [199.117.158.26] 2 535 ms 220 ms 153 ms serf-4500-e3.nrel.gov [199.117.158.1] 3 445 ms 290 ms 603 ms 205.168.78.1 4 * * * Request timed out. 5 * * * Request timed out. 6 * * * Request timed out. 7 * * * Request timed out. 8 * 1794 ms 397 ms cnb7506.sni.net [205.169.234.238] 9 1791 ms 2701 ms * den-edge-04.inet.qwest.net [205.171.16.69] 10 1085 ms 812 ms 346 ms den-core-01.inet.qwest.net [205.171.16.65] 11 213 ms 203 ms 188 ms sfo-core-01.inet.qwest.net [205.171.4.1] 12 194 ms 200 ms 195 ms sfo-core-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.18.2] 13 198 ms 253 ms 222 ms sfo-brdr-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.18.42] 14 257 ms 204 ms 194 ms San-Jose1.CA.US.EU.net [134.222.228.17] 15 * 635 ms 301 ms mae-west.exodus.net [198.32.136.33] 16 260 ms 1156 ms 3045 ms scca-05-p1-2.core.exodus.net [209.185.249.45] 17 2399 ms * 2028 ms scca-02-p0-0-0.core.exodus.net [209.1.169.42] 18 1219 ms 693 ms 226 ms 209.185.255.126 19 210 ms 216 ms 214 ms 209.185.155.119 20 250 ms 227 ms * www.ebay.com [206.79.19.230] 21 241 ms 236 ms 214 ms www.ebay.com [206.79.19.230] I'm on a modem in case that matters... Randy

To: tiquer who wrote (409)	10/23/1998 6:12:00 PM
From: dartmouth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7772

To all, I quote from eBay announcements: As many of you are painfully aware, customers who arrive at eBay via the MCI NAP (Network Access Point) have been experiencing poor to terrible response time over the past few weeks. A NAP is like a freeway onramp or offramp on the internet, and if there's too much traffic trying to get on or off the freeway for the number of lanes on the ramp, traffic gets backed up (anyone who commutes in a major metropolitan area knows what this feels like, especially if there are metering lights). Exodus has been trying to solve this problem for months, but cannot get additional bandwidth to this NAP. Unfortunatly, you the customer, nor eBay, has any control over whether or not you go through this NAP. It's all dependant on the routes chosen by the internet, and has nothing to do with who your ISP is. Our operations staff monitors the support board constantly, and EVERY customer who complains is having their traffic routed through this overcrowed onramp. eBay has decided to bypass the whole problem, and acquire additional bandwidth AROUND the problem, and backhaul into our installation at Exodus. This means that eBay will effectivly have two ISPS to serve you from. We are currently interviewing other bandwidth providers, and one of the criteria will be how fast we can get the additional connectivity in. We'll keep you posted.