Issue causing headaches for AT&T users during peak hours

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Not sure what the problem is. There have been other posts regarding this issue that began after patch 2.55 or so for me and others. Not sure whether this is an ATT problem or SE problem.

More a Level3 problem. Especially the last couple days. Several regions have had nodes flaking out during peak times (specifically, Level3 had some device failures). More ISP's started cutting customers to other peers yesterday because of it. But then that may just slough the congestion off to another network and start bogging down those routes soon (if it's not already happening). For the most part, my TWC has been pretty stable on TATA the last week or so since they moved me to them.

Need to get in touch with your ISP's Tier3 support about it. They are the ones that can put in for the escalation to clear things up---be that leaning on their peers to do something about it, lobbying for more upstream bandwidth at the exchanges, or switching to a different peer. They have resources to conduct a proper investigation and then pull in the proper people to do something about it. Will help them if you can provide some specific details about what you are seeing... tracerts and such are a big help in getting them off in the right direction.

Some posts and such where they have been talking about it recently:

http://status.netnorth.net/
https://www.reddit.com/r/rit/comment...nternet_issue/
https://downdetector.com/status/level3/map/