About 16 hops in for me on Level3.net Montreal router and on a bad night, it sit's here, near 30% packet loss from los angeles. This is using 900 sample trace routes.

Hop Sent Err PL% Min Max Avg Host Name / [IP]
14 877 4 0.5 100 136 107 ae-1-100.ebr1.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.69.151.177]
15 906 252 27.8 81 299 100 ae-10-10.car2.Montreal2.Level3.net [4.69.153.86]
16 906 0 0.0 101 144 108 ORMUCO-COMM.car2.Montreal2.Level3.net [4.59.178.74]
17 906 15 1.7 98 158 104 [192.34.76.10]
18 906 20 2.2 102 176 106 [199.91.189.242]
19 906 18 2.0 101 126 105 [199.91.189.57]