For about the last two weeks, you've had something broken in your internal routing (here's a traceroute from my house in Reston to a server in TX, just as a sample): Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\jamie>tracert 67.18.76.10 Tracing route to a.4c.1243.static.theplanet.com [67.18.76.10] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.254 2 9 ms 9 ms 8 ms ip68-100-160-1.dc.dc.cox.net [68.100.160.1] 3 8 ms 8 ms 7 ms 68.100.1.113 4 36 ms 38 ms 37 ms ip68-100-0-65.dc.dc.cox.net [68.100.0.65] 5 60 ms 62 ms 57 ms mrfddsrj02gex070003.rd.dc.cox.net [68.100.0.149] 6 68 ms 69 ms 68 ms mrfdbbrj02-ge020.rd.dc.cox.net [68.1.1.6] 7 70 ms 67 ms 60 ms nrfkbbrj02-so000000.rd.hr.cox.net [68.1.1.235] 8 54 ms 56 ms 87 ms nrfkbbrj01-ge030.rd.hr.cox.net [68.1.0.22] 9 77 ms 83 ms 70 ms dukebbrj01-so000100.rd.at.cox.net [68.1.0.20] 10 127 ms 92 ms 75 ms dukebbrj02-ge030.tc.at.cox.net [68.1.0.3] 11 116 ms 134 ms 117 ms nrfkbbrj01-as0.rd.hr.cox.net [68.1.0.9] 12 98 ms 96 ms 101 ms btnrbbrj01-ge030.rd.br.cox.net [68.1.1.204] 13 114 ms 111 ms 110 ms dalsbbrj01-so-010000.r2.dl.cox.net [68.1.1.194] 14 106 ms 109 ms 114 ms et2-25.ibr05.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.126.22 5] 15 98 ms 101 ms 99 ms vl31.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.127.30] 16 105 ms 107 ms 107 ms vl22.dsr02.dllstx2.theplanet.com [70.85.127.76] 17 122 ms 116 ms 118 ms vl1.car04.dllstx2.theplanet.com [12.96.160.14] 18 123 ms 124 ms 129 ms a.4c.1243.static.theplanet.com [67.18.76.10] Trace complete. Until your internal routing went to hell, this normally took <40ms. Of course, the huge jump in latency from one router in NoVA to another didn't used to happen either, and the interesting routing through Norfolk two different times is just a bonus, so I have no idea what you've done to your network. Do you? Jamie