From: "Geo." 

I appreciate the feedback, but you tracerouted to news.nls.net instead of
news.barkto.com 

Geo. (we outsource usenet news)

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:3e19f5d0$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> I'm just now catching up with this thread, and with your requests for a
QOS
> assessment and tracerts.  Despite my missing CompuServe software, your
> little P133 is the best connected and crispest NNTP machine I access
> regularly.  It's been pathed well from both RCN and Speakeasy, except for
> that difficult period just after 9/11.  Your peering seems golden. RCN
used
> to route me to you through Chi.  Now it's through Va, with 4-5 fewer hops.
> You even beat CompuServe's NNTP (Arlington?  Columbus?  who knows these
> days?).  You're crisper than my own ISP's news!  I'd guess it's a
> combination of peering, light load and that ?Giordano software.
>
> I use your groups interactively with OE, and it feels as though you're on
my
> LAN.  Thanks.
>
> TraceRoute - Monday, January 06, 2003 16:33:22
> Generated by CyberKit Version 2.5
> Copyright C 1996-2000 by Luc Neijens
>
> Address: news.nls.net
> Number of Packets: 1
> Packet size: 34
> Trace Hop 2 through 31
> Timeout: 4
> Resolve Addresses: Yes
> Don't Fragment: No
>
> #2 ge6-0-0.core1.nyr.ny.rcn.net (208.59.251.194): TTL Exceeded, ttl=254, 8
> ms
> #3 ge1-0-0.core2.nyr.ny.rcn.net (208.59.251.203): TTL Exceeded, ttl=254,
89
> ms
> #4 pos0-3.core2.nyw.ny.rcn.net (207.172.19.13): TTL Exceeded, ttl=253, 9
ms
> #5 pos5-0.core1.phdl.pa.rcn.net (207.172.19.6): TTL Exceeded, ttl=252, 12
ms
> #6 pos6-0.core2.lnh.md.rcn.net (207.172.19.9): TTL Exceeded, ttl=251, 14
ms
> #7 pos0-0-0.border1.eqnx.va.rcn.net (207.172.19.69): TTL Exceeded,
ttl=250,
> 16 ms
> #8 ge4-peering-br1-ash1.webusenet.com (206.223.115.47): TTL Exceeded,
> ttl=58, 35 ms
> #9 p-5-1-br1.atl2.webusenet.com (64.154.61.5): TTL Exceeded, ttl=248, 31
ms
> #10 br2-ve-2.atl2.webusenet.com (64.154.60.134): TTL Exceeded, ttl=56, 34
ms
> #11 news.ispnews.com (64.154.60.178): Echo Reply, ttl=246, 32 ms
>
> Statistics: Out 10, in 10, loss 0%, times (min/avg/max) 8/28/89 ms
>
>

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