I'm going to guess they lost some capacity, as evidenced by these round trip times between New York and Hartford: http://i.imgur.com/j80xE.png and the lack of direct path taken here: [...] 6. vlan90.csw4.NewYork1.Level3.net 0.0% 226 2.7 6.6 0.9 14.3 4.5 7. ae-92-92.ebr2.NewYork1.Level3.net 0.0% 226 1.5 1.8 1.1 2.6 0.3 8. ae-6-6.ebr2.NewYork2.Level3.net 0.0% 226 1.4 1.6 0.9 11.5 0.8 9. ae-2-52.edge1.NewYork2.Level3.net 0.0% 226 1.5 3.4 1.1 83.7 8.8 10. COMCAST-IP.edge1.NewYork2.Level3.net 0.0% 226 5.3 5.2 2.5 21.7 2.4 11. pos-0-10-0-0-cr01.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net 0.0% 226 23.7 24.2 21.6 110.7 5.9 12. pos-0-3-0-0-cr01.chicago.il.ibone.comcast.net 0.0% 226 21.2 21.3 20.7 22.3 0.3 13. pos-3-15-0-0-ar01.woburn.ma.boston.comcast.net 0.0% 226 52.2 52.3 51.4 53.5 0.3 14. pos-0-0-0-0-ar01.needham.ma.boston.comcast.net 0.0% 226 53.0 53.0 52.1 71.6 1.4 [...] HTH, -a