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Originally Posted by blind-eddie

Is anyone else on the (USA)east cost,mid-west having similar issues connecting to sites out west?

My results look similar, but I haven't really noticed any problems accessing sites in general:

Tracing route to vbulletin.org [98.158.195.239]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  10.0.0.1
  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  3     7 ms     7 ms     7 ms  te-8-4-ur02.dover.nh.boston.comcast.net [68.85.185.97]
  4     7 ms     7 ms     7 ms  te-9-3-ur01.portsmouth.nh.boston.comcast.net [68.87.145.98]
  5    11 ms    10 ms    11 ms  be-59-ar01.woburn.ma.boston.comcast.net [68.85.69.53]
  6    15 ms    11 ms    12 ms  pos-3-0-0-0-ar01.needham.ma.boston.comcast.net [68.87.146.14]
  7    18 ms    19 ms    20 ms  pos-2-5-0-0-cr01.newyork.ny.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.90.65]
  8    17 ms    15 ms    15 ms  xe-11-3-0.edge1.NewYork2.Level3.net [4.71.186.5]
  9    16 ms    15 ms    16 ms  vlan52.ebr2.NewYork2.Level3.net [4.69.138.254]
 10    15 ms    15 ms    16 ms  ae-6-6.ebr2.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.141.21]
 11    85 ms    84 ms    85 ms  4.69.135.185
 12    92 ms    92 ms    92 ms  ae-2-2.ebr3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.69.132.10]
 13    94 ms    99 ms    99 ms  ae-93-93.csw4.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.69.137.46]
 14    92 ms    92 ms    92 ms  ae-41-90.car1.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.69.144.195]
 15   107 ms   107 ms   107 ms  INTERNET-BR.car1.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.59.56.162]
 16     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 17     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 18     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 19     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 20  ^C

(I assume the string of "Request timed out" at the end isn't what you're talking about, because I believe that just means it's hit a point where tracert packets aren't passed through).

One problem I have been having (with vbulletin.org only) for the past couple of weeks or so: Sometimes I'll load a page and it will hang, and if I hit reload it doesn't help, but if I stop the page loading then hit reload, it loads right away.