My wife is considering a move to Rocky Hill or Wethersfield (in the Cox-Manchester franchise).
I'm a huge gamer and tech aficionado spoiled by Optimum (a.k.a. Altice/Cablevision) where service has been immaculate (200/35 with fantastic pings, straight A's on dslreports' speed test).
* How's latency for gaming? In Overwatch, I get 50ms using the in-game "latency" counter.
* How are speeds? Is there node oversaturation?
* Is Gigablast truly available? The lookup tool said it's available but some posts on the forum say otherwise.
The only other option is DSL through Frontier. They're nearly bankrupt so any Fiber/FTTH plans are halted. Sigh.
Blizzard (the game's developer) has a public network testing tool: »us-looking-glass.battle.net/ Below are my stats when I run all three tests (Ping, MTR, Traceroute) with the options "United States" and "Overwatch" selected.
Each test is shown twice because the first one is for their Los Angeles servers, and the second is for their Chicago servers. ISP hops are masked and the "Ping" test doesn't work for a lot of people.
TRACEROUTE:
traceroute to 69.125.***.*** (69.125.***.***), 15 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 10.56.100.81 (10.56.100.81) 0.430 ms 0.415 ms 0.411 ms
2 37.244.22.131 (37.244.22.131) 0.754 ms 0.777 ms 0.860 ms
3 24.105.30.158 (24.105.30.158) 1.271 ms 1.315 ms 2.521 ms
4 137.221.66.4 (137.221.66.4) 2.536 ms 2.534 ms 2.545 ms
5 137.221.68.68 (137.221.68.68) 2.517 ms 2.517 ms 2.516 ms
6 137.221.68.32 (137.221.68.32) 1.308 ms 1.201 ms 1.287 ms
7 ae10-1993.cr0-lax1.ip4.gtt.net (69.174.5.21) 3.407 ms 2.808 ms 2.782 ms
8 xe-9-0-0.cr0-nyc2.ip4.gtt.net (89.149.181.185) 63.816 ms 63.688 ms 63.664 ms
9 ip4.gtt.net (173.205.37.34) 64.155 ms 64.167 ms 64.163 ms
10 * * *
11 * * *
12 67.83.224.147 (67.83.224.147) 69.752 ms 69.442 ms 69.790 ms
13 * * *
14 * * *
15 * * *
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TRACEROUTE:
traceroute to 69.125.***.*** (69.125.***.***), 15 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 10.57.68.13 (10.57.68.13) 0.331 ms 0.310 ms 0.308 ms
2 37.244.23.2 (37.244.23.2) 0.669 ms 0.814 ms 0.853 ms
3 24.105.62.146 (24.105.62.146) 1.973 ms 1.984 ms 1.984 ms
4 137.221.66.8 (137.221.66.8) 2.164 ms 2.286 ms 2.293 ms
5 137.221.69.66 (137.221.69.66) 2.071 ms 2.077 ms 2.097 ms
6 137.221.69.32 (137.221.69.32) 1.960 ms 1.771 ms 1.733 ms
7 xe-11-3-0.edge4.Chicago3.Level3.net (4.53.98.45) 1.160 ms 1.041 ms 1.024 ms
8 * * *
9 4.35.20.30 (4.35.20.30) 23.950 ms 24.039 ms 24.044 ms
10 * * *
11 * * *
12 67.83.224.145 (67.83.224.145) 29.946 ms 27.510 ms 27.502 ms
13 * * *
14 * * *
15 * * *
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PING:
PING 69.125.***.*** (69.125.***.***) 56(84) bytes of data.
--- 69.125.***.*** ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2998ms
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PING:
PING 69.125.***.*** (69.125.***.***) 56(84) bytes of data.
--- 69.125.***.*** ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2999ms
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MTR:
Start: Fri May 18 16:20:38 2018
HOST: Blizzard Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1.|-- 10.56.70.56 0.0% 10 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.0
2.|-- 37.244.22.3 0.0% 10 0.9 0.9 0.4 3.5 0.9
3.|-- 24.105.30.158 0.0% 10 1.1 1.1 0.7 2.3 0.3
4.|-- 137.221.66.0 0.0% 10 1.8 1.6 1.5 1.9 0.0
5.|-- 137.221.68.66 0.0% 10 1.4 3.3 1.3 21.0 6.1
6.|-- 137.221.68.32 0.0% 10 1.2 4.4 1.1 15.0 5.2
7.|-- ae10-1993.cr0-lax1.ip4.gtt.net 0.0% 10 1.0 4.6 1.0 34.9 10.6
8.|-- xe-9-0-0.cr0-nyc2.ip4.gtt.net 0.0% 10 64.3 63.8 63.6 64.3 0.0
9.|-- ip4.gtt.net 0.0% 10 64.4 64.2 64.0 64.4 0.0
10.|-- ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
11.|-- ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
12.|-- 67.83.224.145 0.0% 10 67.7 67.8 67.4 69.0 0.0
13.|-- ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
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MTR:
Start: Fri May 18 16:20:38 2018
HOST: Blizzard Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1.|-- 10.57.100.13 0.0% 10 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.7 0.0
2.|-- 37.244.23.130 0.0% 10 0.6 0.6 0.4 0.7 0.0
3.|-- 24.105.62.146 0.0% 10 0.8 1.0 0.8 2.1 0.0
4.|-- 137.221.66.12 0.0% 10 2.5 2.6 2.4 2.8 0.0
5.|-- 137.221.69.68 0.0% 10 2.4 2.4 2.2 2.8 0.0
6.|-- 137.221.69.32 0.0% 10 1.8 2.4 1.7 7.5 1.7
7.|-- xe-11-3-0.edge4.Chicago3.Level3.net 0.0% 10 1.6 1.6 1.5 2.1 0.0
8.|-- 4.69.214.29 80.0% 10 23.6 23.6 23.6 23.6 0.0
9.|-- 4.35.20.30 0.0% 10 24.3 24.2 23.9 25.3 0.0
10.|-- ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
11.|-- ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
12.|-- 67.83.224.147 0.0% 10 28.8 29.0 28.7 29.7 0.0
13.|-- ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
18/05/2018 16:20:38 UTC
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