I have a DSL 1.6M connection from BellAtlantic who uses QWest as the ISP. I have lots of trouble getting DSL speed. I'm trying to figure out whether it's my DSL modem, connection, ISP or just some other place on the net. I'm doing this pin-pointing so I can go back to Bell and let them know the problem is with them.<br><br>Every time and site I ping the beginning path is typically ...<br>Bellatlantic.net,<br>IConNet.net,<br>inet.qwest.net,<br>SprintLink,<br>then other sites.<br><br>My question is: are bellatlantic, iconnet, inet.qwest.net and sprintlink all part of my ISP. Is there any way to figure this out? Because my pings take the same beginning route I figured all three sites are part of my ISP.<br><br>I need to know this because I often experience bad times and hangups at the iconnet and sprintlink sites, as you can see in this example ...<br><br>Target Name: www.deja.com<br> IP: 208.10.192.237<br><br> 1 30 ms 27 ms 27 ms 28 ms 31 ms adsl-151-197-16-1.bellatlantic.net [151.197.16.1]<br> 2 35 ms 31 ms 31 ms 29 ms 31 ms [151.197.5.66]<br> 3 30 ms 30 ms 30 ms 34 ms 31 ms Serial5-0-0.core1.phl1.IConNet.NET [209.3.188.181]<br> 4 60 ms 156 ms 63 ms 62 ms 59 ms Serial3-1-0.core1.teb1.IConNet.NET [204.245.69.177]<br> 5 160 ms 137 ms 117 ms 116 ms 134 ms [205.171.4.217]<br> 6 62 ms 61 ms 66 ms 64 ms 64 ms [205.171.17.126]<br> 7 63 ms 63 ms 67 ms 63 ms 65 ms nyc-core-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.17.2]<br> 8 80 ms 81 ms 85 ms 82 ms 82 ms [205.171.5.252]<br> 9 85 ms 80 ms 81 ms 82 ms 85 ms chi-brdr-01.inet.qwest.net [205.171.20.66]<br>10 618 ms * 615 ms 554 ms 632 ms [205.171.4.254]<br>11 * 575 ms * 589 ms * sl-bb11-chi-2-1.sprintlink.net [144.232.10.157]<br>12 * 601 ms * * * sl-bb12-chi-7-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.10.6]<br>13 587 ms 552 ms 580 ms 561 ms * sl-bb10-kc-7-1.sprintlink.net [144.232.9.117]<br>14 * * 576 ms 551 ms * [144.232.9.254]<br>15 579 ms 544 ms 590 ms * * sl-gw11-fw-0-0-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.11.54]<br>16 578 ms 552 ms 588 ms * * sl-smartt-1-0-0-T3.sprintlink.net [144.228.135.6]<br>17 * * * * * Destination Address Unreachable []<br>18 * * * * * []<br><br><br>