Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 11/28/07 10:44

In alt.html, Mika wrote:

> "Ed Mullen" wrote:
>> Tracing route to superhigstreet.com [208.69.32.130]
>> over a maximum of 30 hops:
>
> Thanks Ed, this is helpful.
>
>> 1 * * * Request timed out.
>> 2 * * * Request timed out.
>
> These are your most local hops, and they are timing out. I would take
> this up urgently with your ISP, explaining they were hops towards a
> UK server. That would explain your extended delay.

There is no problem with his ISP. That merely indicates those two hops
(which could very well be his own router and cable modem) do not respond
to pings and traceroutes.

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-bts
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