title: EC2 - Micro Instance - Very slow network response / lag / latency
body: <p>One of my instances is having some unusual issues.  Pinging any site is extremely slow.  Trying to keep the SSH connection is quite crappy too.  </p>
  
  <p>The following is a ping to yahoo.  Any idea what could be causing this? </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>PING yahoo.com (98.139.183.24) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from
    ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=1523
    ms 64 bytes from ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=2
    ttl=47 time=1494 ms 64 bytes from ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com
    (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=3 ttl=47 time=1526 ms 64 bytes from
    ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=4 ttl=47 time=27.1
    ms 64 bytes from ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=5
    ttl=46 time=1499 ms 64 bytes from ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com
    (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=6 ttl=46 time=1496 ms 64 bytes from
    ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=7 ttl=47 time=18.4
    ms 64 bytes from ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=8
    ttl=46 time=1496 ms 64 bytes from ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com
    (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=9 ttl=47 time=27.8 ms 64 bytes from
    ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=10 ttl=46 time=986
    ms 64 bytes from ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=11
    ttl=46 time=496 ms 64 bytes from ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com
    (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=12 ttl=47 time=18.4 ms 64 bytes from
    ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=13 ttl=46 time=1501
    ms 64 bytes from ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=14
    ttl=46 time=1016 ms 64 bytes from ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com
    (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=15 ttl=47 time=28.0 ms 64 bytes from
    ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=16 ttl=47 time=17.8
    ms 64 bytes from ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=17
    ttl=47 time=1500 ms 64 bytes from ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com
    (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=18 ttl=46 time=1526 ms 64 bytes from
    ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=19 ttl=46 time=1530
    ms 64 bytes from ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=20
    ttl=47 time=1497 ms 64 bytes from ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com
    (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=21 ttl=47 time=18.4 ms 64 bytes from
    ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=22 ttl=46 time=990
    ms 64 bytes from ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=23
    ttl=47 time=24.3 ms 64 bytes from ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com
    (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=24 ttl=47 time=1002 ms 64 bytes from
    ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=25 ttl=47 time=990
    ms 64 bytes from ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=26
    ttl=46 time=1520 ms 64 bytes from ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com
    (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=27 ttl=47 time=1499 ms 64 bytes from
    ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=28 ttl=46 time=1495
    ms 64 bytes from ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=29
    ttl=46 time=1532 ms 64 bytes from ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com
    (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=30 ttl=46 time=1016 ms 64 bytes from
    ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=31 ttl=47 time=17.9
    ms 64 bytes from ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=32
    ttl=46 time=1527 ms 64 bytes from ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com
    (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=33 ttl=46 time=1019 ms 64 bytes from
    ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=34 ttl=47 time=988
    ms 64 bytes from ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=35
    ttl=46 time=1519 ms 64 bytes from ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com
    (98.139.183.24): icmp_seq=36 ttl=46 time=1496 ms ^C
    --- yahoo.com ping statistics --- 37 packets transmitted, 36 received, 2% packet loss, time 48854ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev =
    17.839/996.928/1532.515/613.551 ms</p>
  </blockquote>