I've seen a few posts that seem to point at the peering from verizon to alternet, saying that verizon even owns alternet. I'm on verizon FIOS in MA and the server is in NY.
Started about a week or so ago, I can't always stay connected playing a game, FTP, or making other connections to this particluar server(Other users around the country are fine). I can use a VPN to get to another net work, which doesn't go over the same route and, surprise, it works fine. Got on the chat with verizon and they tried to claim that after the 3rd hop, it was not their problem. Then they reset my router to change my IP (it didn't), then they insisted the problem is with the destination server and their "BOGON" filters.
I filed a ticket with the host (vilayer) and they politely said their network, filters, etc are fine. Here's a traceroute:
Tracing route to ny301.vilayer.com [23.229.0.3]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms Wireless_Broadband_Router.home [192.168.1.1]
2 4 ms 3 ms 4 ms L100.BSTNMA-VFTTP-99.verizon-gni.net [98.110.248.1]
3 8 ms 6 ms 11 ms G0-11-3-0.BSTNMA-LCR-21.verizon-gni.net [100.41.204.208]
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 16 ms 16 ms 18 ms 0.ae3.GW10.EWR6.ALTER.NET [140.222.230.153]
7 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms teliasonera-gw.customer.alter.net [157.130.91.86]
8 17 ms 16 ms 16 ms nyk-bb1-link.telia.net [213.155.130.29]
9 27 ms 26 ms 26 ms buf-b1-link.telia.net [62.115.141.178]
10 57 ms 25 ms 26 ms colocrossing-ic-314281-buf-b1.c.telia.net [62.115.59.90]
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 26 ms 25 ms 26 ms . [192.3.186.2]
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 27 ms 26 ms 25 ms ny301.vilayer.com [23.229.0.3]
Looks like live chat is only until 5pm ET, so I'll get back on with erizon tomorrow.
Any words of wisdom?