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Re: What's going on when you have 8000 ms. pings+zero drops?That is some terrible lag you have in DC. Maybe you should move out into the hinterlands. 
Here is a ping to the same host from a bluetooth connection to my cell phone (connected to an AT&T WCDMA 3G tower):
Pinging lcs.mit.edu [128.30.2.121] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 128.30.2.121: bytes=32 time=1391ms TTL=40
Reply from 128.30.2.121: bytes=32 time=276ms TTL=40
Reply from 128.30.2.121: bytes=32 time=530ms TTL=40
Reply from 128.30.2.121: bytes=32 time=203ms TTL=40
Reply from 128.30.2.121: bytes=32 time=178ms TTL=40
Reply from 128.30.2.121: bytes=32 time=268ms TTL=40
Reply from 128.30.2.121: bytes=32 time=212ms TTL=40
Reply from 128.30.2.121: bytes=32 time=180ms TTL=40
Reply from 128.30.2.121: bytes=32 time=189ms TTL=40
Reply from 128.30.2.121: bytes=32 time=200ms TTL=40
Ping statistics:
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss)
Minimum = 178ms, Maximum = 1391ms, Average = 362ms
Certainly not as good as my DSL connection, but no 8-10 second delays either.
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