[Blake]

Tracing route to news.astraweb.com [67.98.68.37] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 6 ms 5 ms 5 ms 10.250.23.254
2 8 ms 7 ms 8 ms nott-t2cam1-a-v109.inet.ntl.com [80.4.46.57]
3 7 ms 8 ms 7 ms nott-t2core-a-ge-wan73.inet.ntl.com [80.1.79.77]
4 8 ms 9 ms 9 ms lee-bb-a-so-200-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.188.33]
5 15 ms 16 ms 15 ms pop-bb-b-so-100-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.238]
6 24 ms 15 ms 15 ms gfd-bb-a-so-500-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.172.137]
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.

etc until 30

Tracing route to messenger.hotmail.com [207.46.104.20] over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 7 ms 7 ms 6 ms 10.250.23.254
2 28 ms 19 ms 17 ms nott-t2cam1-a-v109.inet.ntl.com [80.4.46.57]
3 9 ms 6 ms 9 ms nott-t2core-a-ge-wan73.inet.ntl.com [80.1.79.77]
4 8 ms 8 ms 12 ms lee-bb-a-so-200-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.188.33]
5 14 ms 13 ms 13 ms pop-bb-b-so-100-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.238]
6 16 ms 15 ms 28 ms gfd-bb-a-so-500-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.172.137]
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.

all the way down to 30

if you have no probs, then ..erm.. dunno