Following this thread with interest I thought I'd have a look too. I thought I'd play along at home - I've had some network performance issues at home which I thought were WiFi related but as I'd never used mtr I installed it and gave it a go: [root@kerberos ~]# mtr --report -c 10 -e www.latrobe.edu.au HOST: kerberos.gb.davies.net.au Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1.|-- upstairs 0.0% 10 0.8 0.8 0.8 1.1 0.1 2.|-- 10.79.0.1 0.0% 10 812.6 786.3 515.2 1206. 279.5 3.|-- riv3-pos3-4.gw.optusnet.c 0.0% 10 797.9 778.4 462.5 1205. 270.8 4.|-- xe-6-1-0.md12.optus.net.a 0.0% 10 784.4 779.7 539.5 1205. 253.0 5.|-- ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.|-- TenGigE0-3-0-5.lon70.Melb 20.0% 10 739.8 762.1 541.1 1227. 277.0 7.|-- Bundle-Ether2.exi-core1.M 10.0% 10 728.9 762.4 551.1 1199. 259.5 8.|-- TenGigabitEthernet9-1.lon 20.0% 10 710.4 689.7 546.2 1206. 218.7 9.|-- aarnet4.lnk.telstra.net 11.1% 9 697.9 682.9 549.4 1180. 206.4 10.|-- ge-5-0-0.bb1.b.mel.aarnet 11.1% 9 683.2 674.9 537.1 1173. 208.9 11.|-- gigabitethernet0.er1.latr 11.1% 9 740.9 686.7 548.7 1168. 207.3 12.|-- gw1.er1.latrobe.cpe.aarne 11.1% 9 774.7 728.6 534.5 1185. 217.4 13.|-- 131.172.1.30 11.1% 9 807.4 703.9 520.9 1208. 225.6 14.|-- ??? 100.0 8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 15.|-- ??? 100.0 8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 16.|-- latrobe.edu.au 12.5% 8 767.5 622.7 520.8 767.5 88.6 Ouch - 700+ms pings to my Optus cable box. My numbers below may give you some sort of reference point - using a not really brilliant ADSL2 connection bob@Comp-NC:~$ mtr --report -c 10 -e www.latrobe.edu.au mtr: invalid option -- 'e' HOST: Comp-NC Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1.|-- 192.168.72.200 0.0% 10 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.6 0.0 2.|-- ge1-0-306.adsl0.vic.aanet 0.0% 10 43.4 41.8 40.9 43.4 0.7 3.|-- te0-0-0-306.core0.mel.dft 0.0% 10 43.0 42.0 40.6 43.3 1.0 4.|-- telstra.mel.dft.com.au 0.0% 10 43.6 43.1 41.9 44.1 0.7 5.|-- Bundle-Ether11.win24.Melb 0.0% 10 49.9 45.8 41.1 51.3 3.6 6.|-- Bundle-Ether6.win-core1.m 0.0% 10 44.0 48.9 41.9 54.8 4.0 7.|-- TenGigabitEthernet9-2.lon 0.0% 10 43.4 63.9 40.9 160.1 44.4 8.|-- aarnet4.lnk.telstra.net 0.0% 10 43.0 42.7 41.7 43.3 0.6 9.|-- ge-5-0-0.bb1.b.mel.aarnet 0.0% 10 42.3 43.1 42.0 44.2 0.7 10.|-- gigabitethernet0.er1.latr 0.0% 10 43.0 46.4 41.7 78.9 11.4 11.|-- gw1.er1.latrobe.cpe.aarne 0.0% 10 154.8 68.6 41.4 172.8 50.5 12.|-- 131.172.1.30 0.0% 10 44.8 43.4 42.3 44.8 0.8 13.|-- ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 14.|-- ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 15.|-- www.latrobe.edu.au 0.0% 10 43.0 43.4 41.7 44.8 0.9 Bob