Good idea. I ran TraceRt against a few sites. All of them that are slow showed ALTER.NET as the bottleneck.

Tracing route to www.levelextreme.com [205.205.57.4]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <internal data snipped for privacy> 
  2    <internal data snipped for privacy>
  3     6 ms     6 ms     6 ms  s12-1-0-27-0.ar1.BOS1.gblx.net [208.51.142.25] 
  4    31 ms    31 ms    31 ms  so0-0-0-2488M.ar4.ATL1.gblx.net [67.17.68.230] 
  5   290 ms     *      290 ms  57.ATM2-0.BR2.ATL5.ALTER.NET [204.255.168.137] 
  6   282 ms   280 ms   287 ms  0.so-2-3-0.XL1.ATL5.ALTER.NET [152.63.82.198] 
  7     *      336 ms     *     0.so-0-0-0.TL1.ATL5.ALTER.NET [152.63.10.102] 
  8     *        *      300 ms  0.so-7-0-0.TL2.MTL1.ALTER.NET [152.63.0.81] 
  9   302 ms   298 ms   300 ms  0.so-7-1-0.XL1.MTL1.ALTER.NET [152.63.133.69] 
 10     *      297 ms   300 ms  0.so-3-0-0.XR1.MTL1.ALTER.NET [152.63.133.46] 
 11     *      297 ms   294 ms  193.ATM7-0.GW1.MTL2.ALTER.NET [152.63.130.65] 
 12     *        *      300 ms  custname-gw.customer.alter.net [216.95.146.106] 
 13     *      306 ms     *     205.205.57.4 
 14   300 ms   305 ms   304 ms  205.205.57.4 

Trace complete.

Thanks,
Guy

>It flies from the SE - you might want to do a tracert to it and try to see where the plumbing is clogged.
>
>>Is anyone else experiencing major delays this morning hitting different sites on the Internet?
>>
>>I'm on a T-1 line and usually have pretty good speed. I can hit sites in the Northeast US and they seem to respond normally. But this site (UT) is responding real slow and some hits are timing out. (I assume it's Internet traffic/routers that are to blame as opposed to a problem with the site.) I also get dog slow performance when hitting west coast sites.
>>
>>I was wondering if a new virus has just sprung and is wreaking haavoc across the net.
>>
>>Is anyone else seeing this?
>>
>>Guy