Thread: Level 3

A bit of digging has shown that Level 3 has had some major issues in the past with internet. I think it is happening again and may be the cause of some players' dramatically increased pings.

http://www.xchangemag.com/articles/5...573918042.html
One of the more recent results of a little Google search.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/5030...ation-problems
Here's the kicker (it's near the bottom if you're lazy)
http://ipcarrier.blogspot.com/2007/1...ng-issues.html

I contacted my ISP (Suddenlink), and they said that the issue wasn't with their servers which was what I thought. I then contacted Level 3. Since I'm not a company representative, they couldn't help me directly but did tell me to have my ISP contact them. Tomorrow, Suddenlink will be making sure it's not a networking issue or something like that. If it turns out to be nothing they can do anything about, then they will contact Level 3 and get onto them about the problem. Given that I had the same problem with Level 3 servers when I was in Dallas using Verizon as my ISP, and I've seen a tracert from California posted that had the same issue with Level 3, I think the issue is definitely with them and not my specific ISP.