In the last few weeks I have noticed poor performance on my Pandora account through my Fios. Since we're only streaming at 128 kbits/second, we're not talking HD video or anything particularly high-rate. I see this behavior wireless/fixed wire, either through computers or through my Squeezebox system.
Even loading the Pandora home page is "slow" where slow means that the background takes 10s of seconds to load. The streaming audio does come from another location, but it appears to be san jose area.
Ping times are OK, but great.
PING www.pandora.com (208.85.40.20) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from www.pandora.com (208.85.40.20): icmp_req=1 ttl=249 time=87.1 ms
I don't see significant packet loss.
1 Wireless_Broadband_Router.home (192.168.1.1) 5.142 ms 4.595 ms 4.366 ms
2 L100.WASHDC-VFTTP-123.verizon-gni.net (96.255.200.1) 10.877 ms 10.629 ms 10.406 ms
3 G0-10-3-4.WASHDC-LCR-21.verizon-gni.net (130.81.137.210) 10.154 ms 9.759 ms 9.545 ms
4 ae13-0.RES-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net (130.81.174.216) 97.835 ms * ae3-0.RES-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net (130.81.199.130) 74.176 ms
5 0.ae5.XL1.IAD8.ALTER.NET (152.63.8.121) 11.491 ms 11.293 ms 11.099 ms
6 0.xe-8-1-1.GW12.IAD8.ALTER.NET (152.63.36.86) 10.909 ms 13.632 ms 0.xe-8-0-2.GW12.IAD8.ALTER.NET (152.63.40.66) 11.939 ms
7 customer.alter.net.customer.alter.net (152.179.50.206) 11.712 ms 14.450 ms 13.359 ms
8 he-2-8-0-0-cr01.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.83.77) 14.721 ms he-2-5-0-0-cr01.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.83.69) 17.416 ms he-2-4-0-0-cr01.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.83.65) 14.179 ms
9 he-4-9-0-0-cr01.56marietta.ga.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.89.174) 40.275 ms 40.914 ms 39.905 ms
10 he-1-12-0-0-cr01.dallas.tx.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.88.234) 47.323 ms 46.828 ms 46.195 ms
11 pos-1-6-0-0-cr01.dallas.tx.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.85.153) 73.694 ms 73.452 ms 73.241 ms
12 he-2-14-0-0-cr01.sanjose.ca.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.89.229) 85.277 ms 84.701 ms 84.245 ms
13 pos-0-3-0-0-pe01.11greatoaks.ca.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.87.18) 87.703 ms 87.412 ms 87.391 ms
14 as40428-5-c.11greatoaks.ca.ibone.comcast.net (75.149.229.166) 89.836 ms 89.515 ms 89.268 ms
15 www.pandora.com (208.85.40.50) 88.149 ms 88.607 ms 88.369 ms
I suspect this might be the infamous alter.net congestion, but I'm not sure. Any suggestions short of proxying through another host?
Thanks
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