I've been having a bad time tonight with getting "stuck" for 45-60 seconds and then (all but one time) losing connection. Here are my numbers now:
Pinging angelisland.tamke.net [66.235.184.96] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=420ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=160ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=160ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=165ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=162ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=160ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=161ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=169ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=161ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=162ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=161ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=160ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=168ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=161ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=160ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=161ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=160ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=162ms TTL=114
Request timed out.
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=161ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=159ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=161ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=161ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=172ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=161ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=175ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=161ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=161ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=160ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=161ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=160ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=165ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=160ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=161ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=160ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=161ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=160ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=161ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=160ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=161ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=169ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=162ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=165ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=160ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=161ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=158ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=159ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=114
Request timed out.
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=160ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=160ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=160ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=160ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=159ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=160ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=161ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=161ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=162ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=162ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=168ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=171ms TTL=114
Reply from 66.235.184.96: bytes=32 time=160ms TTL=114
Ping statistics for 66.235.184.96:
Packets: Sent = 102, Received = 100, Lost = 2 (1% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 158ms, Maximum = 420ms, Average = 163ms
Tracing route to angelisland.tamke.net [66.235.184.96]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 * * * Request timed out.
2 101 ms 77 ms 77 ms ptld-dsl-gw08-200.ptld.qwest.net [207.225.84.200
]
3 79 ms 85 ms 82 ms ptld-agw1.inet.qwest.net [207.225.84.93]
4 78 ms * 78 ms pdx-core-01.inet.qwest.net [205.171.130.25]
5 111 ms 98 ms 96 ms bur-core-03.inet.qwest.net [205.171.13.46]
6 109 ms 96 ms 96 ms lap-brdr-01.inet.qwest.net [205.171.213.106]
7 97 ms 96 ms 96 ms 205.171.1.58
8 167 ms 176 ms 165 ms po11-0.ashcr1.Ashburn.opentransit.net [193.251.2
40.249]
9 177 ms 202 ms 166 ms so-6-0-0-0.ashbb1.Ashburn.opentransit.net [193.2
51.240.157]
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 161 ms 166 ms 161 ms mail.tamke.net [66.235.184.96]
Trace complete.
[I'm not sure what my external IP is, so I used the Qwest machine I'm closest to.]
traceroute to 207.225.84.200 (207.225.84.200), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 c-vl101-d2.acc.dca2.hopone.net (66.36.230.3) 0.403 ms 0.287 ms 0.206 ms
2 ge4-0.core2.dca2.hopone.net (66.36.224.243) 0.276 ms 0.187 ms 0.166 ms
3 iar2-ge-2-0-0.washington.savvis.net (66.36.224.185) 1.526 ms 1.454 ms 1.614 ms
4 * * *
5 * * *
6 * * *
7 * * *
8 * * *
9 * * *
10 * * *
11 * * *
12 * * ptld-dsl-gw08-104.ptld.qwest.net (207.225.84.104) 91.582 ms
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