Okay, following this is my tracert. Pretty obviously, above.net screws me badly, and that lag gets me to the point where I think "Why bother to log on, can't even bash, not talking about PvP"

1 11 ms 11 ms 10 ms ------------
2 10 ms 10 ms 11 ms ------------
3 12 ms 11 ms 11 ms ------------
4 12 ms 11 ms * ------------
5 12 ms 12 ms 20 ms ------------
6 26 ms 26 ms 29 ms decix1.mpr1.fra1.de.above.net
7 30 ms 46 ms 33 ms 64.125.23.233
8 36 ms 36 ms 35 ms 64.125.23.254
9 117 ms 116 ms 119 ms so-2-1-0.mpr1.lga5.us.above.net

10 137 ms 137 ms 137 ms so-3-0-0.cr1.ord2.us.above.net
11 197 ms 193 ms 194 ms so-0-2-0.mpr1.sjc2.us.above.net

12 192 ms 193 ms 193 ms so-0-0-0.mpr2.sjc2.us.above.net

13 191 ms 191 ms * GW-GNI.above.net
14 189 ms 189 ms * core-01.ge-5-16.sfo1.gni.com
15 190 ms 189 ms 189 ms dvb-01.ge-1-1.sfo1.gni.com
16 190 ms 190 ms 190 ms lusternia.com


Okay, can I somehow manually redirect my own route, or can I somehow -avoid- going over above.net? Or is this something I can like, only change with changing provider?

You can't bypass above.net, unfortunately, as that is what IRE connects to.

I actually have an incredible connection, but I get these huge spikes.

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 1062 ms 739 ms 1049 ms dpc67142140002.direcpc.com
4 679 ms 1069 ms 1050 ms dpc67142131130.direcpc.com
5 1068 ms 1079 ms 1269 ms dpc67142131149.direcpc.com
6 889 ms 1269 ms 1099 ms dpc67142128138.direcpc.com
7 1448 ms 1078 ms 1049 ms 67.96.217.41
8 1747 ms 1049 ms 979 ms 216.140.2.158
9 1856 ms 1069 ms 1069 ms P2-2.c0.ftwo.broadwing.net
10 1717 ms 1159 ms 1099 ms 216.140.5.78
11 1418 ms 1039 ms 1078 ms 67.99.65.10
12 1727 ms 1049 ms 1059 ms so-1-0-0.cr2.dfw2.us.above.net
13 1748 ms 1119 ms 1059 ms so-0-0-0.cr1.dfw2.us.above.net
14 1767 ms 1099 ms 1009 ms so-2-1-2.mpr2.sjc2.us.above.net
15 1497 ms 1129 ms 1060 ms GW-GNI.above.net
16 1469 ms 1107 ms 1079 ms core-02.ge-6-14.sfo1.gni.com
17 1307 ms 1289 ms 1029 ms dvb-01.ge-1-1.sfo1.gni.com
18 1707 ms 789 ms 1049 ms lusternia.com


You were saying? :D

But Aesyra is in the same country as me...and doesn't go over above.net. ~_~

Then she's a haxor... are you sure?

Yeah, I just asked her an hour ago.

Here's my tracert:


Unfortunately, it always timesout on the hops from the 1st to the last, so only the 1st hop and the 18th hop show up. Anyone know how to counteract this?

Mine goes through an "alter.net" but no "above.net." I'm confused...