believe me, I am no expert, but IIRC the tele-ic routers favour 'normal' traffic over pings, so hop times will appear to vary with load. I was always told it is the final hop that shows the true speed - and from those traces the first two are poor, but the one to the BBC is spot-on.
But having said that, the BBC trace went through 'wan64.inet', rather than 'wan62.inet', so maybe there is a local routing problem?
like I say I'm a
at this
Code:
08/04/05 20:34:36 Fast traceroute http://www.3dgamers.com/
Trace http://www.3dgamers.com/ (209.8.17.24) ...
3 80.4.47.161 24ms 13ms 13ms TTL: 0 (nott-t2cam1-a-v128.inet.ntl.com ok)
4 80.1.79.77 13ms 18ms 84ms TTL: 0 (nott-t2core-a-ge-wan73.inet.ntl.com ok)
5 62.253.188.33 21ms 65ms 17ms TTL: 0 (lee-bb-a-so-200-0.inet.ntl.com ok)
6 62.253.185.238 22ms 20ms 24ms TTL: 0 (pop-bb-b-so-100-0.inet.ntl.com ok)
7 62.253.185.82 26ms 19ms 20ms TTL: 0 (tele-ic-1-so-010-0.inet.ntl.com ok)
8 195.66.224.167 162ms 42ms 21ms TTL: 0 (cr02.ldn01.pccwbtn.net fraudulent rDNS)
9 209.8.17.24 116ms 123ms 174ms TTL: 54 (www5.3dgamers.com ok)