Intermittently can't access any google site

Mark R

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Oct 9, 1999
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I've had this problem on and off the last couple of weeks. For about 5-10 minutes at a time, every hour or so, I basically lose connectivity to any google site/service: gmail, google search, google finance, adsense, youtube, play store, etc.

This is a fairly typical appearance of a netstat during one of these episodes:
Code:
 TCP    192.168.1.68:53198     173.194.41.68:80       SYN_SENT
 TCP    192.168.1.68:53201     173.194.41.167:80      SYN_SENT
 TCP    192.168.1.68:53203     173.194.41.167:80      SYN_SENT
 TCP    192.168.1.68:53204     173.194.41.167:80      SYN_SENT
 TCP    192.168.1.68:53206     173.194.41.78:80       SYN_SENT
 TCP    192.168.1.68:53208     173.194.41.78:80       SYN_SENT
 TCP    192.168.1.68:53211     173.194.41.78:80       SYN_SENT
 TCP    192.168.1.68:53212     173.194.41.132:80      SYN_SENT
 TCP    192.168.1.68:53215     173.194.34.166:443     SYN_SENT
 TCP    192.168.1.68:53216     173.194.41.78:80       SYN_SENT
 TCP    192.168.1.68:53219     173.194.41.67:80       SYN_SENT
 TCP    192.168.1.68:53221     173.194.41.78:80       SYN_SENT
 TCP    192.168.1.68:53223     173.194.41.67:80       SYN_SENT
 TCP    192.168.1.68:53224     173.194.41.68:80       SYN_SENT
 TCP    192.168.1.68:53226     173.194.41.67:80       SYN_SENT
 TCP    192.168.1.68:53229     173.194.41.67:80       SYN_SENT
 TCP    192.168.1.68:53231     173.194.41.68:80       SYN_SENT
 TCP    192.168.1.68:53234     173.194.41.78:80       SYN_SENT
 TCP    192.168.1.68:53236     173.194.41.67:80       SYN_SENT
 TCP    192.168.1.68:53238     173.194.41.78:80       SYN_SENT
 TCP    192.168.1.68:53239     173.194.41.78:80       SYN_SENT
 TCP    192.168.1.68:53240     173.194.41.68:80       SYN_SENT
 TCP    192.168.1.68:53242     173.194.41.78:80       SYN_SENT
 TCP    192.168.1.68:53245     173.194.41.78:80       SYN_SENT
 TCP    192.168.1.68:53247     173.194.41.78:80       SYN_SENT
 TCP    192.168.1.68:53249     173.194.41.78:80       SYN_SENT
 TCP    192.168.1.68:53251     173.194.41.132:80      SYN_SENT
 TCP    192.168.1.68:53252     173.194.41.132:80      SYN_SENT
 TCP    192.168.1.68:53254     173.194.41.67:80       SYN_SENT
 TCP    192.168.1.68:53256     173.194.34.166:443     SYN_SENT

Interestingly, I can ping those IPs, and I can tracert to them with no problems, during an "outage". Wireshark on my end shows nothing of note; I see the TCP SYN go out, but nada comes back.

It affects all devices on my network, regardless of OS (windows, MacOS, Linux and Android).

Pretty much all other sites and services I've tried work fine during an "outage".

Factory reset of router and firmware update haven't helped.

ISP can't help and aren't aware of any scheduled maintenance. No one else in the ISPs support forum has reported any problems.

I'm guessing this must by either a google datacenter problem or an ISP peering problem, but I'm just wondering if anyone else has any bright ideas.