[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Yeah, forgot about the tracert command. There are services which you can pull up on the web to do this too, but using your command prompt traces the whole route literally from your own PC. I just tried it and found the greatest slowdown to be getting through the Sympatico network... after that the returns were almost instantaneous. That must be the cause of the slowdowns I've been seeing as well.