From: "Robert Comer" 

Interesting, 16 hops, but the response times are pretty decent.

C:\Documents and Settings\comer>tracert speedtest.nls.net

Tracing route to speedtest.nls.net [216.144.12.51] over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  192.168.0.1
  2    11 ms    50 ms    11 ms  10.116.8.1
  3    12 ms    12 ms    12 ms  172.30.74.145
  4    11 ms    11 ms    11 ms  172.30.74.186
  5    20 ms    21 ms    22 ms  12.124.58.77
  6    20 ms    22 ms    21 ms  gbr6-p80.attga.ip.att.net [12.123.21.78]
  7    23 ms    22 ms    22 ms  tbr1-p013601.attga.ip.att.net [12.122.12.25]
  8    21 ms    21 ms    22 ms  ggr1-p360.attga.ip.att.net [12.123.20.249]
  9    22 ms    22 ms    21 ms  192.205.32.26
 10    22 ms    22 ms    23 ms  0.so-2-3-0.XL2.ATL5.ALTER.NET
[152.63.82.194]
 11    21 ms    26 ms    22 ms  0.so-0-0-0.TL2.ATL5.ALTER.NET
[152.63.10.106]
 12    49 ms    49 ms    48 ms  0.so-5-3-0.TL2.CHI2.ALTER.NET [152.63.13.42]
 13    57 ms    57 ms    56 ms  0.so-7-0-0.CL2.CLE1.ALTER.NET
[152.63.64.197]
 14    56 ms    56 ms    56 ms  190.ATM7-0.GW5.CLE1.ALTER.NET
[152.63.69.189]
 15    61 ms    60 ms    61 ms  nls-gw.customer.ALTER.NET [157.130.104.94]
 16    62 ms    61 ms    61 ms  speedtest.nls.net [216.144.12.51]

Trace complete.

"Geo."  wrote in message
news:4025504d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Could be you are just a long way from the server, do a traceroute and see
> how many hops. This test is really meant for people on Netlink's network
as
> then it's only testing between them and our backbone connection. Since you
> guys are coming across the internet, anything between you and us could
slow
> it down.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:40254db4$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > I'm cable too and I get less than half your reported values. (258KB/s)
> >
> > - Bob Comer
>
>
>

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