Hi...
In the past few months, I've noticed that accessing my employer's Office 365 system from a mobile device is very slow. If I turn on Sonic VPN, then the access is very speedy--much more like what I'd expect. It's even faster with 4G LTE, though not as fast as through VPN.
Details:
The server to which my devices connect is outlook.office365.com.
I see this when sending email, refreshing the inbox, or typing email addresses (which do a server lookup for auto-complete). The progress indicator (which varies depending on the operation) spins or flashes for 30-60 seconds. In many cases, the name lookup times out and doesn't complete.
If I turn on Sonic VPN, then it works as expected. Sending a mail takes 2-5 seconds, refreshing the inbox takes about 10-15, and name lookups take 2-5.
office365.com is a Microsoft cloud solution, so there's no definite physical location for the servers. They might be in Redmond, they might be in the Bay Area, or they could be in Europe. It's even possible for my mailbox to migrate from server to server over time. However, this behavior has been consistent for the past few months. (The primary reason I waited for a while to report this is to see whether it might be due to my mailbox having been moved to a server where Internet speeds are poor.)
While I recognize that (a) the actual server can change at any time, due to (1) the fact it's a cloud solution and (2) load balancing, and (b) traceroutes go through a different protocol and may not even go to the same physical server, I've done them for both with and without VPN.
Without VPN:
With VPN:
While using VPN is a workaround, it's not a long-term solution.
Does this provide enough information for Sonic to open a ticket with AT&T? ...thanks!
In the past few months, I've noticed that accessing my employer's Office 365 system from a mobile device is very slow. If I turn on Sonic VPN, then the access is very speedy--much more like what I'd expect. It's even faster with 4G LTE, though not as fast as through VPN.
Details:
The server to which my devices connect is outlook.office365.com.
I see this when sending email, refreshing the inbox, or typing email addresses (which do a server lookup for auto-complete). The progress indicator (which varies depending on the operation) spins or flashes for 30-60 seconds. In many cases, the name lookup times out and doesn't complete.
If I turn on Sonic VPN, then it works as expected. Sending a mail takes 2-5 seconds, refreshing the inbox takes about 10-15, and name lookups take 2-5.
office365.com is a Microsoft cloud solution, so there's no definite physical location for the servers. They might be in Redmond, they might be in the Bay Area, or they could be in Europe. It's even possible for my mailbox to migrate from server to server over time. However, this behavior has been consistent for the past few months. (The primary reason I waited for a while to report this is to see whether it might be due to my mailbox having been moved to a server where Internet speeds are poor.)
While I recognize that (a) the actual server can change at any time, due to (1) the fact it's a cloud solution and (2) load balancing, and (b) traceroutes go through a different protocol and may not even go to the same physical server, I've done them for both with and without VPN.
Without VPN:
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[C:\]tracert outlook.office365.com
Tracing route to SJC-efz.ms-acdc.office.com [52.96.18.2]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 3 ms 3 ms homeportal [192.168.1.254]
2 21 ms 20 ms 21 ms 75-33-192-1.lightspeed.snrmca.sbcglobal.net [75.33.192.1]
3 19 ms 19 ms 19 ms 71.147.212.165
4 29 ms 29 ms 36 ms 12.122.160.118
5 23 ms 25 ms 25 ms 12.122.2.78
6 25 ms 31 ms 28 ms 12.122.163.34
7 23 ms 23 ms 23 ms cr83.sj2ca.ip.att.net [12.122.158.9]
8 55 ms 24 ms 24 ms 12.245.169.38
9 26 ms 26 ms 29 ms be-87-0.ibr01.by2.ntwk.msn.net [104.44.9.191]
10 25 ms 29 ms 26 ms be-5-0.ibr03.by21.ntwk.msn.net [104.44.18.104]
11 24 ms 26 ms 24 ms ae120-0.icr01.by21.ntwk.msn.net [104.44.22.166]
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 ^C
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[C:\]tracert outlook.office365.com
Tracing route to SJC-efz.ms-acdc.office.com [40.97.221.114]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 25 ms 26 ms 27 ms 184-23-190-1.vpn.dynamic.sonic.net [184.23.190.1]
2 26 ms 26 ms 26 ms ae4-200.gw.equinix-sj.sonic.net [209.148.113.33]
3 29 ms 27 ms 27 ms 152.ae4.gw.pao1.sonic.net [50.0.2.93]
4 29 ms 29 ms 30 ms 206.41.106.72
5 46 ms 32 ms 52 ms be-88-0.ibr01.by2.ntwk.msn.net [104.44.9.193]
6 33 ms 30 ms 30 ms be-5-0.ibr03.by21.ntwk.msn.net [104.44.18.104]
7 32 ms 29 ms 29 ms ae120-0.icr01.by21.ntwk.msn.net [104.44.22.166]
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 ^C
Does this provide enough information for Sonic to open a ticket with AT&T? ...thanks!