Connection to CF via German Telekom is very slow

[DarkDeviL]

@Aebian

Can someone confirm this?

Unfortunately, yes.

@DarkDeviL

@DarkDeviL

The issue(s) with AS3320 Deutsche Telekom has been well-known for years, not only in regards to Cloudflare.

AS3320 Deutsche Telekom seem to refuse to peer directly with Cloudflare (as well as many other networks), which in the end is causing the result that traffic has to go through alternative paths (assuming such alternative paths are available, which they may not always be).

AS3320 Deutsche Telekom have similarly been in the media several times over the years, allegedly for not wanting to ensure proper capacity on their peering links, and so forth, which for example caused AS174 Cogent Communiations to send a lawsuit towards AS3320 Deutsche Telekom some years ago.

Unless AS3320 Deutsche Telekom wants to man up and participate in creating a better Internet, I’m unfortunately afraid you shouldn’t be expecting any remediation from AS3320 Deutsche Telekom (or any of it’s subsidiaries).

AS3320 Deutsche Telekom’s bad decisions is not only hitting Cloudflare, but also (many) other networks.

@Aebian

However friends from other ISPs and countries do not experience this slowness.

All ISP’s that are a direct subsidiary of AS3320 Deutsche Telekom will be seeing these issues.

In addition, networks that are a customer of AS3320 Deutsche Telekom, but do not have another, more direct route to AS13335 Cloudflare, would similarly be seeing these issues…

@Aebian

Any ideas?

If you’re paying anything to AS3320 Deutsche Telekom, I suggest you to complain to them, for providing such bad quality, and if you cannot get them to man up, as quoted above, then find another ISP that isn’t depending on, or related to AS3320 Deutsche Telekom in any way.

When/if AS3320 Deutsche Telekom does not want to ensure proper capacity on their network links, or otherwise do not want to peer (locally) with other networks, then there is absolutely nothing that these other networks (including Cloudflare) can do about it.

@Aebian

There was a post from 2021

Got a link to the specific post you’re referring to?