Constructive criticism (only)

[disturbed1]

$ traceroute www.videohelp.com
traceroute to www.videohelp.com (67.19.225.212), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
 1  BXT8120.lan (*.*.*.*)  0.359 ms  0.286 ms  0.266 ms
 2  *.*.*.* (*.*.*.*)  23.360 ms  23.272 ms  23.345 ms
 3  *.*.*.* (*.*.*.*)  23.584 ms  24.352 ms  24.077 ms
 4  ge-8-0-139.hsa1.Phoenix1.Level3.net (63.214.160.137)  25.054 ms  23.961 ms  24.577 ms
 5  so-6-0-0.mp1.Phoenix1.Level3.net (4.68.113.241)  24.556 ms  24.711 ms  24.072 ms
 6  ge-0-1-0.bbr2.Dallas1.Level3.net (64.159.1.110)  46.989 ms as-0-0.bbr1.Dallas1.Level3.net (64.159.3.214)  45.879 ms  46.371 ms
 7  so-7-0-0.edge1.Dallas1.Level3.net (209.244.15.166)  47.479 ms so-6-0-0.edge1.Dallas1.Level3.net (209.244.15.162)  47.103 ms so-7-0-0.edge1.Dallas1.Level3.net (209.244.15.166)  47.282 ms
 8  unknown.Level3.net (63.209.48.110)  46.851 ms  47.629 ms  47.478 ms
 9  dsr2-2-v2.dllstx4.theplanet.com (12.96.160.40)  47.724 ms  46.881 ms  47.496 ms
10  gig1-0-2.tp-car8-1.dllstx4.theplanet.com (67.18.116.83)  47.478 ms  46.583 ms  47.237 ms
11  videohelp.com (67.19.225.212)  55.500 ms  48.584 ms  48.302 ms

With the firewall off. If you have a firewall, or if somewhere along the route, an adminstrator has ICMP turned off, then the request will display timedout ***, but will bounce on to the next route. And it could be a bad router along the way. Head over to www.dslreports.com and do a line quality test. It will expose any bad routes along the way.

The slow loading is 1) Some adds do not reside on the videohelp server, and take a while to load. 2) Beta Browsers (Firefox and Mozilla) have issues loading on alot of pages. Usually slowed down by resolving host. This can fixed with a few tricks and tips at the mozilla forum. 3) Spyware/Adware will slow down your system and M$ Internet Explorer.

On XP, IE 6 performs just fine, no slowdown. Mozilla 1.7.1 likes to stall (Linux/XP), Firefox is better, but still not as fast as IE or Opera.

[stiltman]

Mine looks pretty good

1 15 ms 16 ms 15 ms
2 <10 ms 16 ms 15 ms
3 15 ms <10 ms <10 ms
4 78 ms 16 ms 16 ms
5 31 ms 31 ms 47 ms
6 31 ms 31 ms 47 ms
7 32 ms 31 ms 31 ms
8 47 ms 62 ms 32 ms
9 32 ms 31 ms 31 ms
10 31 ms 47 ms 47 ms
11 63 ms 31 ms 31 ms videohelp.com [67.19.225.212]