Sessions time out or fail from AT&T Commercial, Verizon commercial, Verizon FiOS, and AT&T 3G GSM, all from the East Coast. However, routing from a shell at pair.com: %traceroute mail.google.com traceroute: Warning: mail.google.com has multiple addresses; using 74.125.53.17 traceroute to googlemail.l.google.com (74.125.53.17), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 2 192.168.1.41 (192.168.1.41) 3.963 ms 1.456 ms 1.477 ms 3 TenGigabitEthernet7-2.ar5.CHI1.gblx.net (207.138.112.145) 15.972 ms 14.336 ms 14.268 ms 4 po1-20G.ar3.CHI2.gblx.net (67.16.132.241) 14.563 ms 13.708 ms 14.454 ms 5 72.14.197.69 (72.14.197.69) 53.439 ms 13.862 ms 13.986 ms 6 209.85.254.122 (209.85.254.122) 14.283 ms 14.322 ms 13.999 ms 7 72.14.233.116 (72.14.233.116) 65.376 ms 65.557 ms 65.849 ms 8 216.239.46.208 (216.239.46.208) 72.424 ms 72.163 ms 71.921 ms 9 64.233.174.131 (64.233.174.131) 72.007 ms 71.711 ms 64.233.174.129 (64.233.174.129) 71.916 ms 10 72.14.232.6 (72.14.232.6) 82.512 ms 82.767 ms 71.942 ms 11 pw-in-f17.google.com (74.125.53.17) 71.432 ms 71.686 ms 71.938 ms If I tunnel through, my connection behaves with reasonable crispness. Cheers, -Andrew