[isp-bgp] Help with forcing traffic to avoid Sprint?

["Colo Host" <ispcolohost@...>]

Hi All, if you're familiar with Level 3 and/or Global Crossing, do you have
any suggestions on how one could get traffic to traverse the country
from the east on one of their networks on its way to AS 7132 (SBC/Pacbell)
in order to avoid crossing the country on AS 1239 (Sprint)?  I'm a
customer of both of theirs and have a customer on SBC in California
and we're having really poor throughput and latency which appears to
be caused by Sprint.  During the day it's extremely slow and a few of the
Sprint hops have very high latency, here's three examples of bad hops
as I force things out different providers on my side:

9  sl-bb22-sj-10-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.186)  75.943 ms  76.430 ms  
76.447 ms
10  sl-bb25-sj-12-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.3.210)  238.981 ms  218.339 ms  
211.598 ms
11  sl-bb23-ana-6-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.158)  77.479 ms  77.968 ms  
77.485 ms

12  sl-bb25-sj-12-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.3.210)  78.981 ms  78.476 ms  
78.487 ms
13  sl-bb23-ana-6-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.158)  297.452 ms  227.955 ms  
247.473 ms
14  sl-bb21-ana-10-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.1.185)  82.481 ms  94.978 ms  
79.473 ms
15  sl-st20-la-13-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.67)  98.478 ms  210.561 ms  
243.475 ms

8  sl-bb23-rly-6-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.151)  31.351 ms  31.340 ms  
31.242 ms
9  sl-bb27-rly-10-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.14.142)  230.592 ms  212.958 ms  
227.975 ms
10  sl-bb22-rly-10-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.14.177)  31.356 ms  31.225 ms  
31.484 ms
11  sl-bb22-sj-10-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.186)  77.980 ms  78.226 ms  
77.858 ms
12  sl-bb25-sj-12-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.3.210)  143.086 ms  118.462 ms  
189.726 ms

I've mailed Sprint but since I'm not a direct customer I just get the 
standard
our network is functioning normally response.  If I could get my traffic to 
stay
on Level 3 to California and then dump it off to whoever, even Sprint, that 
would
be much nicer, 50 ms versus 250 ms.  I've tried to force my traffic out 
Level 3
while also sending communities to Level 3 to prepending once or twice 
towards
Sprint's AS only but the traffic still takes that route; maybe Sprint is 
SBC's
only transit?

Thanks,

D







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