On 11 Jan 2013, at 08:17, Fred <fcoffey at misernet.net> wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2013, Cory Smelosky wrote: I was more wondering why the roundtrip time to 33.15 was more-or-less double what it was to a system around the world. ;) *pops head up* Hey, that's me! I'm on the local cable co, which usually gives good ping times. Could have been doing transfers at that time perhaps? Could be related to me -> Dave -> his other link -> Steve -> you. ;) We need trace route for DECnet? I can ping around (don't have a Cisco though) if someone would like ... Fred