I cannot even call their toll-free help lines, as the figer cut apparently is affecting that as well, according to their local NOC people, who cannot chd any more light on this. I suprisingly just found that I can connect to my colo servers there if I first ssh to a server I have in germany. However, traceroutes from here (comcast) stop here: 5 po-70-ar01.ivyland.pa.panjde.comcast.net (68.86.208.145) 13.165 ms 7.634 ms 17.193 ms 6 po-10-ar01.401nbroadst.pa.panjde.comcast.net (68.86.208.33) 9.913 ms 7.899 ms 13.856 ms 7 12.118.114.49 (12.118.114.49) 18.673 ms 113.943 ms 201.091 ms 8 tbr1-p012301.phlpa.ip.att.net (12.123.137.210) 22.029 ms 16.856 ms 14.122 ms 9 tbr1-cl8.n54ny.ip.att.net (12.122.2.17) 15.477 ms 20.529 ms 21.079 ms 10 ggr1-p330.n54ny.ip.att.net (12.123.0.81) 21.812 ms 13.032 ms 13.623 ms 11 att-gw.ny.broadwing.net (192.205.32.106) 17.127 ms 16.489 ms 12.97 ms 12 s0-3-0.c1.nwyk.broadwing.net (216.140.10.193) 15.672 ms 17.7 ms 12.865 ms 13 so7-0-0.a1.nwaknj.broadwing.net (216.140.8.198) 32.475 ms 17.576 ms 13.366 ms 14 g1-2-0.core2.jfk.foc.broadwing.net (216.140.10.110) 23.748 ms 17.769 ms 18.252 ms 15 * * * 16 * * * If anybody can shed any light, please cc a reply to james@ns2.pil.net Thanks, James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor up@3.am http://3.am =========================================================================