[tomkat]

My guess is a pipe issue, but it's just a mildly-informed guess.

FR used to be much quicker, as you well know, even in times of huge traffic.

Leads me to think something outside FR's internal architecture is causing most of the problems.

[Darksheare]

It does appear that something is broken in the internet backbone.
The nodes are showing really messed up stuff.

I wonder what is going on.

[TXnMA]

I, too have been looking for "man in the middle" or "pipe"problems.

UNIX TRACEROUTE shows some problems with the close-in servers in Milpitas.

Most of my problems are timeouts -- and the fact that Vanman posted the same thing ~ 50 times on the last debate thread (having received no feedback from FR) makes me suspect the problem is data flow outward FROM FR -- rather than internal speed or FR's response to INcoming data...

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But my big surprise was when TRACEROUTE showed FR's DNSs (Domain Name Servers) in Germany!!

Network Tools says: "62.116.181.25 [ns2.robinson-defehr.com] is from Germany(DE) in region Western Europe"

Final hop: 62.116.181.25 25-181-116-62.rev.customer-net.de

I hope that's not some sort of "hijack" going on...

This IP stuff gets weird, sometimes...