Cox's transit provider (AS1299 / Arelion) has daily congestion, latency, and packet loss between Dallas and Phoenix.

Here is a traceroute from OVH DC in Paris. Notice that from hop 12 (Dallas) to hop 13 (Phoenix). Latency is increased by 130ms. This has been happening for the past several days around 1500 MST (-0700 UTC) on Jan 29. And 1800 MST today. THis persists for several hours as congestion increases during peak hours for this region. Cox ASxxxx NOC needs to get sorted with its transit provider AS1299.

Start: 2026-01-31T02:52:41+0000HOST: par3.lg.ovh.net                                                Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev  1. AS???    _gateway (100.64.0.1)                                   0.0%     3    0.2   0.2   0.2   0.3   0.0  2. AS???    ???                                                    100.0     3    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0  3. AS???    10.73.241.129                                           0.0%     3    0.4   0.4   0.4   0.4   0.0  4. AS???    172.20.1.40                                             0.0%     3    3.6   2.9   2.5   3.6   0.6  5. ASxxxx  37.59.16.1                                              0.0%     3    0.5   0.5   0.5   0.6   0.1  6. AS???    10.200.2.77                                             0.0%     3    0.6   0.7   0.6   0.7   0.0  7. AS???    ???                                                    100.0     3    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0  8. AS1299   prs-bb2-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.125.166)           0.0%     3    2.1   2.2   2.1   2.3   0.1  9. AS1299   ash-bb2-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.140.107)           0.0%     3   83.6  83.8  83.6  83.9   0.1 10. AS1299   atl-bb2-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.137.133)          66.7%     3   94.7  94.7  94.7  94.7   0.0 11. AS1299   atl-b24-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.143.237)           0.0%     3   94.7  94.7  94.7  94.7   0.0 12. AS1299   dls-b7-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.116.212)            0.0%     3  111.9 111.9 111.8 111.9   0.0 13. AS1299   phx-b6-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.125.55)             0.0%     3  249.7 249.9 245.3 254.7   4.7 14. AS1299   coxcom-ic-xxxx8.ip.twelve99-cust.net (62.115.173.21)   0.0%     3  258.7 258.7 257.0 260.5   1.7 15. ASxxxx  ip70-171-206-1.tc.ph.cox.net (70.171.206.1)             0.0%     3  255.4 253.8 252.9 255.4   1.4