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by Hikikomori 656 days ago
Not sure why this matters for anyone not working for the ISP that those packets go through, and people working there would know about it. And they're mostly completely passive devices like filters.

Traceroute is what we have, and its mostly enough as you can say at which hop things went wrong, then its up the ISP to figure out what devices they need to look at.
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mcmcmc 656 days ago
It definitely helps to understand it when you are trying to explain to the ISP that it’s their problem. Knowing what you’re talking about will get your issue resolved much more quickly.
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groby_b 656 days ago
That depends who's doing the talking. You're a large business with a dedicated connection and your own network engineering team? Yeah, totally matters.

You're a single consumer, or a small business? Your dialog is limited to "Yes, I switched the router on and off. Yes, my local network works. No, I can reach the website over my phone, this is your problem".

Repeat three times, then get the inevitable reply of "it'll be up again in the next 24 hours".

Unless you're a network engineer, this really doesn't matter.

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Hikikomori 656 days ago
How does it help the ISP if you're just guessing what they might have between two routers?
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