[...] how the everloving *fuck* is what i said hard to understand? send SYN-flagged packets (using hping, or just craft them yourself...) and see what the response time is. ICMP isn't really a fair test since it's usually prioritised.

[...] and here's the bit where someone tells you that, sure, it might give useful info but no one can actually give you that info because they haven't got a clue what you're on about. also I think Hat's probably on the right track. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that the router is in some sort of void and the router that's in this world is actually just a projection and everyone sees what they want in it's place.

[...] here's the bit where i point out that doing what i said would actually give useful technical information, and that you are a jackass.

[...] Joke's on you, Mercury has no moon.

can we get back to the point where we would just ignore chris' attempts of sounding intellectually gifted and instead actually help people with technical issues?

[...] You are onto the right track, but i think she should investigate the possibility of her router having a quantum flux pattern signal dispersion issue - perhaps caused by interference from tachyon emissions ranging from the earth's secondary ionosphere during times of low nitrogen exposure in mercury's second moon

[...] You are onto the right track, but i think she should investigate the possibility of her router having a quantum flux pattern signal dispersion issue - perhaps caused by interference from tachyon emissions ranging from the earth's secondary ionosphere during times of low nitrogen exposure in mercury's second moon

Probably traffic shaping gone wrong. What are latency times like to the same server when sending SYN?