Verizon FiOS Customers Unite

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This is a user-to-user forum... it explains this in the sticky welcoming everyone to this forum.

Their ISP has major backbone access...they actually have the EIDOS group registered with an ASN (but it points to Ormuco) and peers directly with some of the biggest names out there, amongst them Level3, Cogent, TATA, and Verizon Business (their alter.net/UUNET brand). A lot of it comes from the peering arrangements with these third parties. We frequently see issues first cropping up around the exchange point from our last-mile ISP's into these transit/peering exchanges.

Basically...people need to demand better from their ISP's to get this resolved. They are the ones ultimately determining how we get routed. You can test this with a VPN--if you find a tunnel that is more stable, compare the routing. You will likely see you either go through a different corridor to get to Montreal, or you use a different ISP for the peering/transit then when using your ISP's routing.