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Monday, August 3rd, 2026 11:56 PM

High Latency/Congestion at Dallas ibone node (be-34932-cs03.dallas.tx.ibone.comcast.net)

EDIT (11:00 PM CDT): Now confirmed across all four Dallas core switches: cs01 (68.86.95.113), cs02 (.117), cs03 (.121), cs04 (.125), with pe11 interfaces 96.110.34.82/.86/.90/.94. Four reporting customers on different rur interfaces (68.85.54.221, 68.85.54.225, 162.151.131.237, 68.86.246.25) and two different xar02 port-channels (96.108.29.54, 96.108.30.49). The only hops common to every affected trace are 68.86.240.1 and 68.86.240.22, both responding normally at 12–17ms.
Since all four ECMP members are degraded identically, this is not a device fault. Requesting review of the transport egressing 68.86.240.22 toward the 1950 Stemmons Dallas facility, and any change made August 2-August 3.


Hi!

I am experiencing severe latency spikes starting at a specific Comcast core backbone router in Dallas. The connection is completely clean through Tennessee, but latency explodes from ~17ms to nearly 300ms the moment it hits the Dallas ibone node.
Because the high latency persists through all subsequent hops into the destination network, I think this is a genuine routing/link bottleneck but I also do not know for sure. I just know that when I play what I am trying to play my match gets terminated by matchmaking handler rules due to the high latency persisting. Could a forum moderator please escalate this traceroute to the Network Operations Center (NOC) or Tier 3 routing engineers to check the health/capacity of this link? Below I have provided the tests I ran after noticing this. 

This is being tested with an address that I think is associated with handling peer to peer connections for the game I am trying to play that I first noticed this issue on. It is a Google Cloud address. 

tracert:

Tracing route to 193.153.173.34.bc.googleusercontent.com [34.173.153.1.93]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  10.0.0.1
  2    17 ms    17 ms    13 ms  100.92.75.122
  3    15 ms    13 ms    12 ms  po-123-rur401.winchester.tn.malt.comcast.net [68.85.54.221]
  4    15 ms    17 ms    26 ms  po-2-rur402.winchester.tn.malt.comcast.net [96.108.30.170]
  5    18 ms    17 ms     8 ms  po-400-xar02.winchester.tn.malt.comcast.net [96.108.30.49]
  6    16 ms    14 ms    14 ms  68.86.240.1
  7    21 ms    17 ms    16 ms  68.86.240.22
  8   310 ms   309 ms   242 ms  be-34932-cs03.dallas.tx.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.95.121]
  9   255 ms   278 ms   301 ms  be-3311-pe11.1950stemmons.tx.ibone.comcast.net [96.110.34.90]
 10   259 ms   290 ms   284 ms  193.153.173.34.bc.googleusercontent.com [34.173.153.193]

sustained ping test:

Ping statistics for 34.173.153.193:
Packets: Sent = 423, Received = 417, Lost = 6 (1% loss),

Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 223ms, Maximum = 335ms, Average = 302ms

For what it is worth, the loss looks ok...latency bad. 

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10 hours ago

Summary: Approximately 250ms of latency is being added on a single hop within Comcast's network, affecting all traffic routed through the Dallas backbone site. Requesting escalation to network engineering.

Local network confirmed healthy: Traces to 1.1.1.1 complete in 16ms via 162.151.119.230. Hops 1–7 are consistently 8–17ms across all tests. Last mile, modem, and CMTS are not implicated.

Affected destinations (all 260–335ms round trip): 8.8.8.8 (304ms), Google web 192.178.152.139 (335ms), Linode Dallas 50.116.25.154 (282ms), Linode Newark 50.116.57.237 (279ms), OpenDNS 208.67.222.222 (288ms), ICANN root server 199.7.83.42 (266ms).

Common failure point: Every affected trace is normal through 68.86.240.22, then enters cs03.dallas.tx.ibone.comcast.net and jumps immediately. Example from the 199.7.83.42 trace — hop 7 68.86.240.22 at 10ms, hop 8 68.86.95.121 at 247ms. Affected interfaces observed: 68.86.95.113, 68.86.95.117, 68.86.95.121, 68.86.106.170, 96.110.34.82, 96.110.34.86, 96.110.34.106, 96.110.34.161, 96.110.42.210.

Why this is not a false positive: Elevated latency is present at the destination endpoints, not only at intermediate hops, so it is not ICMP deprioritization. The minimum latency at the affected hop is ~223ms in sustained PingPlotter monitoring, which indicates a path/transport problem rather than congestion — congestion produces a low minimum with a high average. Six destinations across unrelated networks are affected, ruling out a peering issue with any single provider. Nine distinct router interfaces are affected, ruling out a single-device fault.

Request: Please review the transport between the Winchester/Nashville TN aggregation and the 1950 Stemmons Freeway, Dallas TX backbone facility. PingPlotter screenshots and .pp2 sample sets available on request.

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Yeah, I did another tracert on a peer to peer endpoint for a game and this one exits cs02 instead of cs03 with approximately the same latency figures: 170.100.167.239 over a maximum of 30 hops
1     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  10.0.0.1
2    15 ms    13 ms    17 ms  100.92.75.123
3    13 ms    13 ms    17 ms  po-123-rur402.winchester.tn.malt.comcast.net [68.85.54.225]
4    17 ms    17 ms    13 ms  po-400-xar02.winchester.tn.malt.comcast.net [96.108.30.49]
5    16 ms    13 ms    13 ms  68.86.240.1
6    18 ms    17 ms    17 ms  68.86.240.22
7   299 ms   220 ms   180 ms  be-34922-cs02.dallas.tx.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.95.117]
8   231 ms   259 ms   285 ms  be-3211-pe11.1950stemmons.tx.ibone.comcast.net [96.110.34.86]
9     *        *        *     Request timed out.
10   257 ms   283 ms   302 ms  dls-b23-link.ip.twelve99.net [62.115.138.65]
11   298 ms   315 ms   316 ms

I am going to run some more.

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4 Messages

9 hours ago

I am in Memphis Tn. Normally have a 20-30ms ping to nearly anywhere. Today it went up to over 300ms to any server outside of Memphis. 1gb download speeds, 350mb/s uploads. Everything is fine......until I try to go outside the area. Xfinity support is all but useless.

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2 Messages

7 hours ago

Issue Resolved around 11:05pm CST.

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@user_ukllvk​ it would appear it is resolved from my end as well. 

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5 Messages

Wooooo! I'm just some lowly gamer but I enjoyed this bonding experience lol might go jump into IT after this!

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6 hours ago

Well, it looks to be holding now. I’ll knock on wood though. If a representative is able to post to say whether or not we were on the right track just for my own curiosity’s sake, I would appreciate it, but if not, all good. 

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