What's up with the Level3/Lightower handoff?

[AenorVZ]

I'm on ATT DSL and I get 19 ms ping, 45 down 11 up at speedtest.net. Here's an MTR to login.eqemulator.net:


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| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
| dsldevice.attlocal.net - 0 | 110 | 110 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 5 |
|99-184-16-1.lightspeed.rswlga.sbcglobal.net - 0 | 110 | 110 | 16 | 20 | 32 | 21 |
| 76.239.205.93 - 0 | 110 | 110 | 21 | 25 | 38 | 27 |
| 12.123.22.86 - 0 | 110 | 110 | 22 | 29 | 40 | 29 |
| 12.122.141.233 - 0 | 110 | 110 | 22 | 29 | 41 | 32 |
| 4.68.62.225 - 0 | 110 | 110 | 20 | 28 | 60 | 31 |
| No response from host - 100 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FIBERTECH-N.bear2.Boston1.Level3.net - 33 | 46 | 31 | 0 | 53 | 64 | 54 |
| ae3-bstpmalljp1.lightower.net - 30 | 51 | 36 | 0 | 65 | 92 | 78 |
| 160.72.248.57.lightower.net - 26 | 55 | 41 | 0 | 53 | 66 | 50 |
| ae0-brtnmas6j81.lightower.net - 17 | 67 | 56 | 0 | 55 | 84 | 50 |
| 144.121.39.122.lightower.net - 17 | 67 | 56 | 50 | 53 | 64 | 50 |
| No response from host - 100 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| No response from host - 100 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| No response from host - 100 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| No response from host - 100 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| No response from host - 100 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| No response from host - 100 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| No response from host - 100 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| No response from host - 100 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| No response from host - 100 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| No response from host - 100 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| No response from host - 100 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| No response from host - 100 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| No response from host - 100 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| No response from host - 100 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| No response from host - 100 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| No response from host - 100 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| No response from host - 100 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| No response from host - 100 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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By contrast I'm at 27ms average ping and 0% packet loss to google dns:

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| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
| dsldevice.attlocal.net - 0 | 101 | 101 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 2 |
|99-184-16-1.lightspeed.rswlga.sbcglobal.net - 0 | 101 | 101 | 17 | 21 | 37 | 19 |
| 76.239.205.93 - 0 | 101 | 101 | 22 | 25 | 39 | 23 |
| 12.123.22.86 - 0 | 101 | 101 | 22 | 28 | 47 | 30 |
| gar1.nsvtn.ip.att.net - 0 | 101 | 101 | 23 | 26 | 42 | 23 |
| 12.255.10.24 - 0 | 101 | 101 | 22 | 25 | 42 | 23 |
| 209.85.255.75 - 0 | 101 | 101 | 21 | 26 | 34 | 25 |
| 216.239.47.35 - 0 | 101 | 101 | 22 | 26 | 40 | 25 |
| dns.google - 0 | 101 | 101 | 22 | 27 | 43 | 24 |
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