[snip]

And hey, at least it's staying within the same state. I have seen lots of situations where traffic going across the street will cross the country at least once to get there. Anyone who's ever lived in a rural market has to deal with much, much worse on a daily basis.

--msa

...such as this old trace, that I've saved for some time, from an access point in Denver to a destination in Denver. --- traceroute to www.rmi.net (166.93.8.30), 30 hops max, 18 byte packets 1 ( 207.155.168.5) ts003e01.den-co.concentric.net 152 ms 2 ( 207.155.168.1) rt001e0102.den-co.concentric.net.168.155.207.IN-ADDR.ARPA 161 ms 3 ( 207.88.24.21) 207.88.24.21 190 ms 4 ( 207.88.0.253) us-ca-scl-core1-f9-0.rtr.concentric.net 189 ms 5 ( 207.88.0.178) 207.88.0.178 206 ms 6 ( 144.228.207.73) sl-gw18-chi-5-1-0-T3.sprintlink.net 210 ms 7 ( 144.232.0.217) sl-bb11-chi-3-3.sprintlink.net 216 ms 8 ( 144.232.0.174) sl-bb5-chi-4-0-0.sprintlink.net 211 ms 9 ( 144.232.8.85) sl-bb7-pen-5-1-0.sprintlink.net 225 ms 10 ( 144.232.5.53) sl-bb10-pen-1-3.sprintlink.net 236 ms 11 ( 144.232.5.62) sl-nap1-pen-4-0-0.sprintlink.net 228 ms 12 ( 192.157.69.13) p219.t3.ans.net 263 ms 13 ( 140.223.60.209) f1-1.t60-6.Reston.t3.ans.net 264 ms 14 ( 140.223.65.17) h12-1.t64-0.Houston.t3.ans.net 286 ms 15 ( 140.223.25.14) h13-1.t80-1.St-Louis.t3.ans.net 283 ms 16 ( 140.223.25.29) h14-1.t24-0.Chicago.t3.ans.net 292 ms 17 ( 140.223.9.18) h14-1.t96-0.Denver.t3.ans.net 309 ms 18 ( 140.222.96.122) f1-0.c96-10.Denver.t3.ans.net 313 ms 19 ( 207.25.224.14) h1-0.enss3191.t3.ans.net 306 ms 20 ( 166.93.46.246) 166.93.46.246 305 ms 21 ( 166.93.8.30) www.rmi.net 285 ms --------------------------------------------- Jeff Doyle Professional Services Engineer Juniper Networks, Inc. Denver, Colorado jeff@juniper.net (303)910-0820 ---------------------------------------------