[DrAwesome]

Originally Posted by tkiely

Tracing route to www.theregister.co.uk [212.100.234.54]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 * * * Request timed out.
2 19 ms 18 ms 19 ms 194.106.33.164
3 21 ms 20 ms 19 ms i-194-106-32-57.freedom2surf.net [194.106.32.57]

4 21 ms 23 ms 22 ms edge2.lon.rackspace.net [195.66.224.116]
5 23 ms 23 ms 21 ms vl130.aggr1.lon.rackspace.net [212.100.227.18]
6 24 ms 25 ms 24 ms 212.100.234.54

Trace complete.

sorry, I missed your replys so here we go. Hop one is my ethernet adsl router.



Tracing route to www.theregister.co.uk [212.100.234.54]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 * * * Request timed out.
2 19 ms 18 ms 19 ms 194.106.33.164
3 21 ms 20 ms 19 ms i-194-106-32-57.freedom2surf.net [194.106.32.57]

4 21 ms 23 ms 22 ms edge2.lon.rackspace.net [195.66.224.116]
5 23 ms 23 ms 21 ms vl130.aggr1.lon.rackspace.net [212.100.227.18]
6 24 ms 25 ms 24 ms 212.100.234.54

Trace complete.

The 18-20ms is introduced by the adsl part of the link. WHen I tracert from work to home its 2ms all the way to the final adsl link to my house, ie the last hop which then goes to 18-20ms.

My point was that freedom2surf are maintaining as good a backbone (as shown by the low results) as Globix who are a leading tier one isp.

Cheers for the Trace routes tkiely

Anyway, new development.

As I reported earlier, although I am paid up to the end of Feb, NTL called to reclaim their STBs a couple of weeks ago. I didnt care 'cos I have Sky now. However they did say that they would send a jiffy bag for me to post the CM back to them.

I called today to ask where my jiffy bag was, 'Oh dont worry, we will continue your service until the 30th' she said.

'Is that the 30th of February?' I asked

'Yes'

'30th of Feb? are you sure?'

'Yes'

'Fine, thanks very much'


SO looks like they will collect on the 12th of never. It continues even after I have left-amazing

I still have my CM i did phone/ask my local NTL franchise if they were going to retrieve it & i was told no.. so it sits on the cuboard gathering dust & the odd kitty cat hair when the cat decides to sit on it