>Hi John,
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>Yeah I have the same problems as well (T1 through a 1.2m frame cloud). I had been attributing it to heavy UT usage and internet ghosts and goblins. I got annoyed one day when I couldn't access the chat and Nancy had emailed me saying everybody was in with out a problem.
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>I called my ISP and we traced the problem to:
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>189.ATM11-0-0.GW5.NYC4.ALTER.NET [146.188.179.233]
>

Gee, that looks familiar. Who'se your ISP? Sprint/MCI maybe?

>It was down flatter than a pancake. 20 minutes later it came back up and all was well. Everytime I have had a problem since then (not as much recently) I have traced it back to that same server.
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>Don't know if you get routed through there or not but you might want to do a tracert the next time you have problems.
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>hth
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>
>>Has anybody else noticed the sluggishness of the UT lately. I am on a DSL line with a 1.6mb pipe, and the performance has really fallen off...
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>>And no, I don't think it is because of the extra messages...<bg>. At least, I hope not...