Yoshi P addresses lag. Its time to deliever...

[Laraul]

Everyone is using traceroute, seeing a ping spike or packet loss and assuming that hop one of the Level 3 routers is responsible. But it only appears when requesting a response from that particular server. Not the SE server.

This is what I'm getting by using a simple ICMP ping test....
C:\>ping -n 30 -l 1492 199.91.189.36

Pinging 199.91.189.36 with 1492 bytes of data:
Reply from 199.91.189.36: bytes=1492 time=88ms TTL=244
Reply from 199.91.189.36: bytes=1492 time=91ms TTL=244
..........
Reply from 199.91.189.36: bytes=1492 time=89ms TTL=244

Ping statistics for 199.91.189.36:
Packets: Sent = 30, Received = 30, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 88ms, Maximum = 93ms, Average = 89ms

If the level3 hops we're impacting server response times it would show up using this test. It's not. Therefore Level3 is not responsible.

I think you people are trying to find something that isn't there.