The past few days I've been experiencing major packet loss. For a few minutes or hours I sporadically get half-decent service.

I spoke to one TimeWarner Cable tech who had me read out a traceroute to google.com. (Yes, line by line; times and IPs of all 15 hops.)

The traceroute showed major packet loss and extremely high response times for whatever few packets that actually made it. I was transferred to a higher level tech. This girl asked me to email the traceroute output to her showing that my connection was near dead. Sadly, she wasn't joking.

I guess this experience should prepare me for when I deploy to Iraq. I have a friend in Afghanistan. His download speeds are around 3KB/s. :(

Updated 2007-08-09: Tech came by corrected the line noise issue. All should be good now.