FYI, the usual 75ms SJC to IAD on UUnet (AS701) backbone has been over 110ms for about an hour. 2 0.so-0-2-0.XL1.SJC1.ALTER.NET (152.63.54.18) [AS 701] 0 msec 1 msec 1 msec 3 * 0.xe-7-0-2.XL3.IAD8.ALTER.NET (152.63.32.230) [AS 701] 163 msec 140 msec No end-to-end loss observed. -mark