I noticed sending via smtp was really slow--like 20 seconds or more for a message this size--so I did a ping on my smtp server.
What I got back is a scad of (DUP!) replys. No packets missing, but wouldn't that tend to slow my sending down? And why the DUP!s? I always thought that a lot of dup packets meant more than one machine with a single IP address, but am I wrong about this? BTW, my ISP took their mail server down a week or so ago for maintenance, and I think that is when the problem began. Before I get too adamant with them I want all my ducks in a row. It looks even worse when I ping large packets. PING mail.gorge.net (209.216.160.4) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from mail.gorge.net (209.216.160.4): icmp_seq=1 ttl=126 time=218 ms 64 bytes from mail.gorge.net (209.216.160.4): icmp_seq=1 ttl=126 time=238 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from mail.gorge.net (209.216.160.4): icmp_seq=1 ttl=126 time=248 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from mail.gorge.net (209.216.160.4): icmp_seq=2 ttl=126 time=189 ms 64 bytes from mail.gorge.net (209.216.160.4): icmp_seq=2 ttl=126 time=209 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from mail.gorge.net (209.216.160.4): icmp_seq=2 ttl=126 time=219 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from mail.gorge.net (209.216.160.4): icmp_seq=3 ttl=126 time=179 ms 64 bytes from mail.gorge.net (209.216.160.4): icmp_seq=3 ttl=126 time=199 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from mail.gorge.net (209.216.160.4): icmp_seq=3 ttl=126 time=219 ms (DUP!)
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