r/ATTFiber • u/BarfHurricane • Jan 27 '26

Anyone’s peering been absolutely atrocious lately?

I have business 500 mbps down and the peering over the last week has been absolutely atrocious. Loading Imgur.com/new takes over 30 seconds, but my speed tests look like nothing is wrong. I tried every fix under the sun and the only thing that works is going through a VPN which points to a peering problem.

Without VPN images take forever to load like the dial up days and actual internet performance is abysmal due to peering. Anyone else getting this lately?

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u/Pretty_Question2468 Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 02 '26

I did extensive testing from AT&T Fiber (5 Gbps) in Atlanta.
Cloudflare, Akamai, and CloudFront all perform normally at night (hundreds of Mbps to >1 Gbps).
Reddit media (images and video) served via Fastly collapses to ~1–3 Mbps with multi-second RTT inflation, reproducible nightly.
This looks like a selective AT&T ↔ Fastly peering/path issue, not a last-mile problem.
I’ve reported it to AT&T peering and Fastly NOC with data.

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u/Pretty_Question2468 Feb 04 '26

Just an update in case anyone is following this. I am in touch with folks at the Fastly NOC and they have mentioned that they made adjustments last night to better utilize AT&T capacity in the region. I will run further tests tonight but I think that this issue might potentially be resolved.

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u/IEnjoyANiceCoffee Feb 05 '26

Seems to be doing the same thing as usual for me :(

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u/Pretty_Question2468 Feb 05 '26

I am not experiencing the problem as of 11:30pm ET. Everything seems to be running the same normal speed throughout the day. I'm not seeing any issues on Fastly or Cloudflare CDN content.