apparently i am cursed; just now (2011-09-13 - 931p pacific) i signed on to popular maps 2 and within 2 rounds, the server is suffering more lag spikes/pauses than ever before.
here's a tracert output from... right now:
Code:
Tracing route to 173-231-20-21.hosted.static.webnx.com [173.231.20.21]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms blue [10.0.0.1]
2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1
3 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms adsl-69-108-95-254.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net [69.10
8.95.254]
4 10 ms 9 ms 10 ms 67.114.50.194
5 11 ms 13 ms 29 ms 151.164.102.186
6 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms ex2-p15-0.eqlaca.sbcglobal.net [151.164.39.225]
7 42 ms 221 ms 16 ms asn3549-glbx.eqlaca.sbcglobal.net [151.164.248.1
06]
8 23 ms 23 ms 40 ms PCCW-GLOBAL-INC.TenGigabitEthernet8-1.1200.ar4.L
AX1.gblx.net [64.211.83.226]
9 21 ms 22 ms 21 ms webnx.ge9-27.br01.lax05.pccwbtn.net [63.218.42.1
94]
10 23 ms 22 ms 22 ms 216-18-192-242.hosted.static.webnx.com [216.18.1
92.242]
11 25 ms 22 ms 22 ms 173-231-20-21.hosted.static.webnx.com [173.231.2
0.21]
Trace complete.
interestingly, if you google for
asn3549-glbx.eqlaca.sbcglobal.net the very first result is a forum posting from 2011-05-24 complaining about this very same address.