For the last week the *ONLY* way I can hold a connection to tigger at jvnc.net has been to log into a net access machine in philly and telnet from there to tigger rather than telnet directly from my house. Both connections go througth the CIX to get me 20 miles up the road in New jersey!! When I get packets from this connection it is like a 1200 baud connect. The infuriating thing is that after giving me 1200 baud service for a minute or two, it will stop for any where from up to 45 seconds to 3 minutes before moving a single character!!!!! I have complained to jvnc. They say they are laboring mightily to solve the problem and that a LOT of their users are affected. Not much luck so far ...still 300 baud service. BUT a traceroute from tigger to a commercial web site in wash DC run by PSI goes through MCI's MAE EAST ++ router which is where *MY* packets oughtta go rather than to California and back. Anyone have any idea why? The person I asked at JVNC today didn't. Here are the two traces done within the last 30 minutes. JVNC To my router via cix traceroute to 205.164.155.1 (205.164.155.3), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 nomad-eth0 (128.121.50.50) 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2 liberty-hssi1/0-1 (130.94.40.250) 11 ms 10 ms 10 ms 3 waters-ser1/6 (130.94.45.249) 77 ms * 61 ms 4 ness-ser4 (130.94.17.250) 89 ms 126 ms 116 ms 5 goldengate-ser8 (130.94.15.65) 204 ms 186 ms 163 ms 6 cix-jvnc.west.cix.net (149.20.6.1) 194 ms 152 ms 149 ms 7 * hlc.west.cix.net (149.20.64.32) 109 ms 139 ms 8 hlc-east.gw.hlc.net (205.214.32.1) 128 ms * 159 ms 9 * mae-east.netaxs.com (192.41.177.87) 176 ms 172 ms 10 wynd-mae-east-gw.netaxs.com (207.8.160.5) 374 ms 198 ms 194 ms 11 wynd-mfs/k2ne/goldner-we0.netaxs.com (207.8.186.88) 226 ms 127 ms 160 ms 12 k2ne-wynd-t1.tty0.netaxs.com (206.161.91.14) 133 ms 184 ms 158 ms 13 router-ewing.netaxs.com (205.164.155.1) 167 ms 221 ms 199 ms Traceroute JVNC to comcast web site via mae east: tigger-gcook> traceroute www.comcast.com traceroute to www.comcast.inter.net (38.15.13.172), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 nomad-eth0 (128.121.50.50) 2 ms 4 ms 3 ms 2 liberty-hssi1/0-1 (130.94.40.250) 37 ms 15 ms 13 ms 3 border2-hssi2-0.NewYork.mci.net (204.70.45.9) 23 ms 14 ms 24 ms 4 core1-fddi-1.NewYork.mci.net (204.70.3.17) 13 ms 12 ms 16 ms 5 core1-hssi-2.Washington.mci.net (204.70.1.5) 20 ms 19 ms 19 ms 6 borderx1-fddi0-0.Washington.mci.net (204.70.2.4) 18 ms 22 ms 18 ms 7 mae-east-plusplus.Washington.mci.net (204.70.74.102) 26 ms 19 ms 21 ms 8 * mae-east.psi.net (192.41.177.245) 35 ms 32 ms 9 38.1.2.14 (38.1.2.14) 21 ms 37 ms 28 ms 10 www5a-gw.inter.net (38.15.1.40) 36 ms 25 ms 52 ms 11 www5a.inter.net (38.15.13.2) 31 ms * 28 ms ********************************************************************* Gordon Cook, Editor & Publisher Subscriptions: Individ-ascii $85 The COOK Report on Internet Individ. hard copy $150 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA Small Corp & Gov't $200 (609) 882-2572 Corporate $350 Internet: cook@cookreport.com Corporate Site Lic. $650 http://pobox.com/cook/ for new COOK Report Glossary of Internet terms *********************************************************************