Could just be more of the typical peering exchange issues we have been seeing off and on for years. For the most part Cogent and TATA have been holding up somewhat decent through most of the Montreal area, but been seeing more of the usual flakiness coming around Toronto and into Montreal. Level3 has had their usual suspects (their car2 segments act up almost weekly it seems) and the alter.net (Verizon) and the old TiNet/SPA segments have been bogging down as well.

There is just so much traffic in/around the north east that it is getting harder and harder to get around the congestion. You would think with the absurd prices some of these guys charge for bandwidth ($40/a month for basic plans of 15mb or less) that they could afford to hook up some more 10gb ports at their exchange points. Not expecting a full scale fiber rollout...just fix their sh!t so it can handle the bandwidth they are selling us.