said by caffeinator:Yeah, and boy, AT&T sure has a lot of fingers in the network pie...check this trace to DSLR:
--- 05/31/07 13:28:23 Pacific Daylight Time
--- looking up host dslreports.com
--- traceroute to dslreports.com [209.123.109.175],
30 hops max, 18 byte packets
1 [ 192.168.0.1] 192.168.0.1 0 ms
2 [ 66.45.176.66] 66-45-176-66.ptr.llix.net 100 ms
3 [ 66.45.176.65] 66-45-176-65.ptr.llix.net 70 ms
4 [ 65.61.96.51] 65.61.96.51 70 ms
5 [ 65.61.96.9] br1-ge-1-0.spkn.llix.net 90 ms
6 [ 12.119.199.45] 12.119.199.45 90 ms
7 [ 12.127.6.46] 12.127.6.46 200 ms
8 [ 12.122.10.61] tbr2.cgcil.ip.att.net 190 ms
9 [ 12.122.10.169] 12.122.10.169 190 ms
10 [ 12.122.1.189] cr1.n54ny.ip.att.net 201 ms
11 [ 12.127.0.74] br2.n54ny.ip.att.net 210 ms
12 [ 12.122.84.41] 12.122.84.41 150 ms
13 [ 12.119.140.26] att-gige.esd1.nwr.nac.net 170 ms
14 [ 209.123.11.189] 3.ge-3-0-0.gbr2.nwr.nac.net 180 ms
15 [ 209.123.11.233] 0.so-0-3-0.gbr1.oct.nac.net 251 ms
16 [209.123.109.175] www.dslreports.com 181 ms
--- traceroute statistics for dslreports.com
16 packets transmitted, 16 received
round-trip time (ms) min 0, avg 146, max 251
Just because you aren't an AT&T customer..dosen't mean your traffic isn't going through their routers.
Fun.

-CaFF
You do know that ATT is a primary internet backbone provider?