From: Phil Payne 

> Oops.  Well, it's still crisp.  Here's the familiar 16 hops through
> Chi-town.  This has stayed stable for a while for me.

And from here:

Tracing route to w3.nls.net [216.144.1.254] over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms   <10 ms   <10 ms  IMAC [169.254.23.78]
  2    35 ms    39 ms    50 ms  centralplus2-hg3.kingston.broadband.bt.net
[217.32.71.74]
  3    48 ms    41 ms    40 ms  217.32.71.1
  4    49 ms    48 ms    45 ms  217.32.71.110
  5    49 ms    50 ms    49 ms  62.6.40.53
  6    46 ms    50 ms    49 ms  core2-gig2-1.kingston.ukcore.bt.net
[194.72.3.2]
  7    49 ms    50 ms    50 ms  core2-pos5-3.ealing.ukcore.bt.net
[194.74.65.241]
  8    51 ms    50 ms    50 ms  transit1-pos4-0.ealing.ukcore.bt.net
[194.72.9.238]
  9    49 ms    50 ms    50 ms  iar1-so-2-0-0.London.cw.net [166.63.167.41]
 10    41 ms    50 ms    50 ms  bcr1.London.cw.net [166.63.162.61]
 11    49 ms    50 ms    49 ms  bcr1-so-7-0-0.Thamesside.cw.net
[166.63.211.201]
 12   113 ms   120 ms   120 ms  dcr1-loopback.NewYork.cw.net
[206.24.194.99]
 13   115 ms   120 ms   120 ms  agr3-so-4-0-0.NewYork.cw.net
[206.24.207.74]
 14   128 ms   130 ms   130 ms  acr1-loopback.Cleveland.cw.net
[208.172.210.61]
 15   125 ms   128 ms   130 ms  aar1-loopback.Cleveland.cw.net
[208.172.210.2]
 16   138 ms   140 ms   140 ms  netlink-services-inc.Cleveland.cw.net
[208.172.215.2]
 17   150 ms   150 ms   150 ms  r-cle-ds3.nls.net [216.144.27.222]
 18   144 ms   148 ms   143 ms  w3.nls.net [216.144.1.254]

Trace complete.

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  Phil Payne
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