Even _I_ have a route to you! (With truly awful latency) b4 at meaghan:~ traceroute 192.108.198.254 traceroute to 192.108.198.254 (192.108.198.254), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets snip 18 r29a-ge-2-0-gw.stupi.net (192.108.195.149) 583.803 ms * 213.912 ms So you are looking at CPU speed of the router, that processes ping packets at the lowest priority.. Ping a computer, kniv.stupi.se for example.. R>!traceroute 75.49.19.254 traceroute to 75.49.19.254 (75.49.19.254), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets 1 R29A-GW.Stupi.SE (192.108.198.254) 227.170 ms 215.521 ms 205.397 ms 2 R29BFR-GE-2-0-6-GW.Stupi.NET (192.108.195.150) 161.133 ms 0.261 ms 0.284 ms 3 BFR5-GE-5-1-0.Stupi.NET (192.108.195.17) 0.431 ms 0.273 ms 0.433 ms 4 HFR1-GE-0-7-1-0.Stupi.NET (192.108.195.122) 14.249 ms 10.423 ms 1.309 ms 5 213.206.129.86 (213.206.129.86) 0.578 ms 0.678 ms 0.432 ms 6 sl-bb21-cop-12-0-0.sprintlink.net (213.206.129.33) 9.351 ms 9.193 ms 9.131 ms 7 sl-bb20-cop-15-0-0.sprintlink.net (80.77.64.33) 9.937 ms 9.313 ms 9.207 ms 8 144.232.24.12 (144.232.24.12) 88.426 ms 315.822 ms 88.493 ms 9 sl-crs2-nyc-0-2-5-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.25.113) 91.615 ms 91.081 ms 90.863 ms 10 144.232.6.6 (144.232.6.6) 90.257 ms 90.185 ms 90.081 ms 11 cr1.n54ny.ip.att.net (12.122.80.226) 118.263 ms 119.168 ms 116.009 ms 12 cr1.phlpa.ip.att.net (12.122.5.242) 116.323 ms 123.579 ms 119.665 ms 13 cr2.phlpa.ip.att.net (12.122.3.226) 119.224 ms 116.263 ms 115.926 ms 14 cr2.cl2oh.ip.att.net (12.122.2.209) 116.647 ms 119.276 ms 127.524 ms 15 cr1.cl2oh.ip.att.net (12.122.2.125) 117.425 ms 117.979 ms 115.837 ms 16 12.83.58.253 (12.83.58.253) 272.051 ms 298.390 ms 311.608 ms 17 ppp-151-164-55-57.eulstx.swbell.net (151.164.55.57) 217.446 ms 242.930 ms 291.844 ms 18 dist2-te2-1.wotnoh.sbcglobal.net (151.164.55.64) 115.333 ms 115.430 ms 115.239 ms 19 adsl-75-49-19-254.dsl.wotnoh.sbcglobal.net (75.49.19.254) 117.827 ms 117.474 ms 116.824 ms In Croatia we put 1GE simple fiber SFP in to the houses. Could be upgraded to 10G when prices come down. No pon, no nothing strange... -P