Seems like just about any request for a site outside of Comcrap’s network is poinging from router to router to router to router — inside Comcrap’s own network. Here, for instance, is how it gets to AOL.COM (something important to my wifely person):
E:\>tracert aol.com
Tracing route to aol.com [205.188.142.182]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms router [192.168.0.1] 2 * * * Request timed out. 3 8 ms * 9 ms ge-1-4-ur01.northwest.in.indiana.comcast.net [68 .86.186.153] 4 9 ms 10 ms * te-9-1-ur02.northwest.in.indiana.comcast.net [68 .86.184.86] 5 9 ms 9 ms * te-8-1-ur01.speedway.in.indiana.comcast.net [68. 86.184.90] 6 * 9 ms * te-8-1-ur01.beechgrove.in.indiana.comcast.net [6 8.86.184.21] 7 9 ms 10 ms * te-8-1-ur02.beechgrove.in.indiana.comcast.net [6 8.86.184.26] 8 9 ms * 10 ms te-9-1-ur01.lawrence.in.indiana.comcast.net [68. 86.184.30] 9 11 ms 11 ms * te-8-3-ur01.peru.in.indiana.comcast.net [68.86.1 84.78] 10 12 ms 14 ms * te-9-4-ur01.huntington.in.indiana.comcast.net [6 8.86.184.158] 11 13 ms 14 ms 13 ms te-9-3-ar02.main.in.indiana.comcast.net [68.86.1 84.153] 12 15 ms 14 ms 14 ms ge-8-2-rtr01.main.in.indiana.comcast.net [68.86. 184.194]
And that's just the first 12 hops.
Comcrapular! (And it's identical no matter where I go, which explains why my Remote Desktop sessions to work have been so damn sluggish.)
WHY can't AT&T get off their ass and hook up that damn U-verse box? I would switch so fast, heads would spin.