Its days like this when I just love sprint: 8 sl-dc-8-F0/0.sprintlink.net (144.228.20.8) 12 msec 16 msec 12 msec 9 sl-dc-6-F0/0.sprintlink.net (144.228.20.6) 16 msec 20 msec 16 msec 10 sl-dc-8-F0/0.sprintlink.net (144.228.20.8) 24 msec 16 msec 12 msec 11 sl-dc-6-F0/0.sprintlink.net (144.228.20.6) 16 msec 16 msec 16 msec 12 sl-dc-8-F0/0.sprintlink.net (144.228.20.8) 12 msec 20 msec 12 msec 13 sl-dc-6-F0/0.sprintlink.net (144.228.20.6) 12 msec 16 msec 16 msec 14 sl-dc-8-F0/0.sprintlink.net (144.228.20.8) 20 msec 24 msec 16 msec 15 sl-dc-6-F0/0.sprintlink.net (144.228.20.6) 16 msec 16 msec 20 msec 16 sl-dc-8-F0/0.sprintlink.net (144.228.20.8) 16 msec 20 msec 16 msec 17 sl-dc-6-F0/0.sprintlink.net (144.228.20.6) 16 msec 20 msec 16 msec 18 sl-dc-8-F0/0.sprintlink.net (144.228.20.8) 16 msec 16 msec 16 msec 19 sl-dc-6-F0/0.sprintlink.net (144.228.20.6) 16 msec 12 msec 16 msec 20 sl-dc-8-F0/0.sprintlink.net (144.228.20.8) 16 msec 20 msec 16 msec 21 sl-dc-6-F0/0.sprintlink.net (144.228.20.6) 20 msec 16 msec 16 msec 22 sl-dc-8-F0/0.sprintlink.net (144.228.20.8) 16 msec 16 msec 12 msec 23 sl-dc-6-F0/0.sprintlink.net (144.228.20.6) 20 msec 16 msec 16 msec 24 sl-dc-8-F0/0.sprintlink.net (144.228.20.8) 20 msec 28 msec 20 msec 25 sl-dc-6-F0/0.sprintlink.net (144.228.20.6) 16 msec 16 msec 16 msec 26 sl-dc-8-F0/0.sprintlink.net (144.228.20.8) 12 msec 12 msec 16 msec 27 sl-dc-6-F0/0.sprintlink.net (144.228.20.6) 20 msec 16 msec 16 msec 28 sl-dc-8-F0/0.sprintlink.net (144.228.20.8) 24 msec 16 msec 12 msec 29 sl-dc-6-F0/0.sprintlink.net (144.228.20.6) 16 msec 16 msec 16 msec 30 sl-dc-8-F0/0.sprintlink.net (144.228.20.8) 16 msec 20 msec 24 msec Sadly this is all too common of an occurrence. What is sprint doing to help keep problems like this from becoming chronic? Is it just me or is Sprint particularly bad about this? I guess the reason that I'm bringing this up here is I wonder if these types of problems are the result of any particular choices Sprint made in their design.... If so I would like to know how to avoid them. :) I know that hardware fails and things break, but Sprint has had (in my opinion) more than it's share of problems. -D Darrel Lewis Network Engineer Thomson Electronic Information Resources dlewis@teir.com