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So today, I log into the East Server, expecting to get a few x2's knocked out. Lag feels worse than usual, so I fire up Ping Plotter, only to find that apparently I have to be routed via Singapore now, in order to get to the server.

Now, I'm thinking maybe my network has suddenly gone nuts, or perhaps my computer is broken. I reboot my computer, do the usual unplug the modem for a few minutes, and test again. Yep, routing via Singapore.

I called Comcast Business (I have a business line, my office is out of my home, need the 100MB/10MB service) and submitted the ping plotter and the IP address of the East Server. After a colorful reaction by the Comcast Tech (consisting essentially of whomever did this needs to be fired for gross incompetence), he involved another senior level tech to review, as neither one of us believed the results. Here's the net of the situation :

No changes made in Atlanta or for that matter in weeks to any routes on the Comcast Network

Confirmation that Comcast hasn't banned any transit or peers recently

Confirmation that other IPs in the same data center as WG are routing properly with about 35ms ping

Confirmation that the issue is a peering update that would have come via Telia that is causing all traffic bound from my region (SouthEast, I live in Atlanta) to be favored as routed via Singtel (Singapore National Carrier)

Net result ? The Telia network admins are complete morons. An update apparently made between yesterday and today has caused peering relationships to change. If you view the below graph, you'll see me going from Atlanta, to Los Angeles, to Singapore, and back to Ashburn.

Why on earth WG continues to not fire Telia is beyond me, Telia is the world's absolute worst carrier ever. We've had packetloss that has increasingly gotten worse, and now, they can't even route a simple packet from Atlanta to Ashburn, VA (a trip of about 700 miles as the packet travels) without making me literally travel about 11,000 miles to get there.

WG needs to grow a pair and fire this Telia trash. There's no way in my business (cloud based) that I'd put up with the levels of gross incompetence that Telia willingly displays.

Absolute, ground shattering stupidity.