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Another Comcast service interruption

I am not sure what is happening to Comcast’s IP network as of late, but I am frequently seeing significant packet loss on my cable modem connection:

$ ping www.google.com

PING www.l.google.com (64.233.179.99): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 64.233.179.99: icmp_seq=14 ttl=238 time=25.527 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.179.99: icmp_seq=15 ttl=238 time=23.751 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.179.99: icmp_seq=17 ttl=238 time=24.669 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.179.99: icmp_seq=20 ttl=238 time=23.855 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.179.99: icmp_seq=23 ttl=238 time=23.442 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.179.99: icmp_seq=26 ttl=238 time=25.103 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.179.99: icmp_seq=27 ttl=238 time=23.294 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.179.99: icmp_seq=28 ttl=238 time=24.033 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.179.99: icmp_seq=32 ttl=238 time=23.458 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.179.99: icmp_seq=34 ttl=238 time=24.503 ms
^C
--- www.l.google.com ping statistics ---
35 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 71% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 23.294/24.164/25.527/0.719 ms

I used mtr to verify the packet loss was inside Comcast’s IP network, and am starting to think I need to switch service providers again. Ugh!