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I am on a T3 with 2 OC3 backbones, for some reason I can't seem to be able to duplicate the slowness....Tracing route to www.ar15.com [208.245.134.228]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
(snip)
Not bad at all....
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I am also on T3.
Tracing route to www.ar15.com [208.245.134.228]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <10 ms <10 ms 10 ms 63.251.174.1
2 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms border3.s7-4.enom-1.sef.pnap.net [63.251.162.137
]
3 <10 ms <10 ms 10 ms core1.ge0-0-0-bbnet1.sef.pnap.net [63.251.160.1]
4 <10 ms 10 ms 10 ms sl-gw6-tac-4-0.sprintlink.net [160.81.229.37]
5 <10 ms 10 ms <10 ms sl-bb21-tac-13-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.17.2]
6 <10 ms 10 ms <10 ms sl-bb20-sea-10-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.18.85]
7 40 ms 40 ms 50 ms sl-bb22-chi-11-2.sprintlink.net [144.232.18.50]
8 50 ms 40 ms 50 ms sl-bb21-chi-14-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.26.98]
9 60 ms 61 ms 70 ms sl-bb11-spr-13-1.sprintlink.net [144.232.19.206]
10 90 ms 80 ms 90 ms sl-gw4-spr-14-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.21.51]
11 90 ms 70 ms 90 ms sl-biznesson-1-0.sprintlink.net [160.81.249.10]
12 70 ms 80 ms 80 ms connix-gate-line.thebiz.net [216.238.32.21]
13 80 ms 90 ms 80 ms prime-gate-r.telco.thebiz.net [216.238.32.58]
14 90 ms 81 ms 90 ms router-rl.pcom.net [208.245.134.1]
15 80 ms 90 ms 100 ms www.ar15.com [208.245.134.228]
Trace complete.
Even still 100 ms is not bad but that doesn't mean a thing if the pages on the server aren't executing quickly. BTW the sluggishness comes and goes. Sometimes it takes 20 seconds for a page to come up. This happens here and at home over dsl also.