after finally being able to connect to AO I found this on the login screen...
Welcoem to Anarchy Online! 2010/10/08 08:06:47 GMT UTC
Please Note: Some users might currently experience Issues when trying to open the Anarchy Online official forums.. We are aware of this issue and working on a solution....
Im not knocking the Network guys out there but its not only the forums.... its all of AO or anything funcom related in NJ going thru Level3's network...
C:\DOCUME~1\OWNER>ping -t -a anarchy-online.com
Pinging anarchy-online.com [208.82.193.45] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 208.82.193.45:
Packets: Sent = 55, Received = 0, Lost = 55 (100% loss),
Control-C
^C
C:\DOCUME~1\OWNER>tracert anarchy-online.com
Tracing route to anarchy-online.com [208.82.193.45]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms w.x.y.z << /anonified
2 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms te-9-2-ur01.scranton.pa.panjde.comcast.net [68.8
5.129.109]
3 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms te-9-3-sr01.sacramento.pa.panjde.comcast.net [68
.85.40.42]
4 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms te-9-3-sr01.millersburg.pa.panjde.comcast.net [6
8.85.41.241]
5 12 ms 14 ms 11 ms te-7-4-ar01.lowerpaxton.pa.panjde.comcast.net [6
8.85.40.137]
6 17 ms 19 ms 19 ms te-1-3-ar02.ivyland.pa.panjde.comcast.net [68.85
.158.182]
7 17 ms 18 ms 18 ms te-0-5-0-0-ar01.ivyland.pa.panjde.comcast.net [6
8.85.159.217]
8 18 ms 18 ms 19 ms pos-0-10-0-0-ar01.401nbroadst.pa.panjde.comcast.
net [68.85.192.190]
9 26 ms 26 ms 26 ms pos-0-0-0-0-cr01.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net [6
8.86.90.9]
10 27 ms 28 ms 28 ms xe-8-3-0.edge1.Washington1.Level3.net [63.210.62
.49]
11 38 ms 35 ms 36 ms vlan69.csw1.Washington1.Level3.net [4.68.17.62]
12 27 ms 25 ms 26 ms ae-62-62.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.134.1
45]
13 43 ms 35 ms 36 ms ae-4-4.ebr2.Newark1.Level3.net [4.69.132.102]
14 34 ms 33 ms 35 ms ae-22-52.car2.Newark1.Level3.net [4.68.99.38]
15 34 ms 45 ms 33 ms IPSOFT-INC.car2.Newark1.Level3.net [4.79.190.126
]
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 ^C
C:\DOCUME~1\OWNER>tracert DNS-NJ3.FUNCOM.COM
Tracing route to DNS-NJ3.FUNCOM.COM [208.82.194.16]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 10 ms 9 ms 10 ms w.x.y.z << /anonified
2 8 ms 9 ms 9 ms te-9-2-ur01.scranton.pa.panjde.comcast.net [68.8
5.129.109]
3 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms te-9-1-sr01.sacramento.pa.panjde.comcast.net [68
.85.40.229]
4 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms te-9-1-sr01.millersburg.pa.panjde.comcast.net [6
8.85.41.13]
5 15 ms 13 ms 14 ms te-7-3-ar01.lowerpaxton.pa.panjde.comcast.net [6
8.85.41.221]
6 17 ms 19 ms 25 ms te-1-4-ar02.ivyland.pa.panjde.comcast.net [68.85
.158.190]
7 19 ms 17 ms 16 ms te-0-5-0-2-ar01.ivyland.pa.panjde.comcast.net [6
8.85.159.221]
8 18 ms 18 ms 18 ms pos-0-9-0-0-ar01.401nbroadst.pa.panjde.comcast.n
et [68.86.208.33]
9 26 ms 25 ms 25 ms pos-0-3-0-0-cr01.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net [6
8.86.91.245]
10 28 ms 28 ms 28 ms xe-8-3-0.edge1.Washington1.Level3.net [63.210.62
.49]
11 27 ms 35 ms 35 ms vlan99.csw4.Washington1.Level3.net [4.68.17.254]
12 27 ms 28 ms 28 ms ae-92-92.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.134.1
57]
13 40 ms 36 ms 35 ms ae-4-4.ebr2.Newark1.Level3.net [4.69.132.102]
14 31 ms 31 ms 33 ms ae-22-52.car2.Newark1.Level3.net [4.68.99.38]
15 33 ms 33 ms 33 ms IPSOFT-INC.car2.Newark1.Level3.net [4.79.190.126
]
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
Its clear that its not just the forums but anything AO related in NJ following a specific route.. Im not sure if level3 is AO's sole intranet backbone providor, but the problem is NOT forums related only.... Also emailed this info to Level3 NOC support and also dns@funcom.com so maybe someone can see where the drop off is, this problem is not new either.... yesteday I was having alot of rubberbanding and network freezeups (not client freezeup) and about a week or 2 ago something similiar happened for about 4 days straight around 1-5am EST...
Just wanted to relay the message to everyone...