You have to feel for me

Just when I thought it couldn’t get worse than this, we have the following traceroute to google.com:

$ traceroute -d google.com

1 3 ms 2 ms 3 ms 192.168.0.1
2 * 3012 ms * 64.80.126.1
3 * * 3077 ms 64.80.19.73
4 * 3189 ms 3069 ms 157.238.179.1
5 3365 ms * * 129.250.26.206
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 3343 ms * * 129.250.5.14
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * 3302 ms * 208.172.156.13
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 3174 ms * * 206.79.9.205
17 * 3351 ms * 216.33.153.68
18 3341 ms * 3181 ms 216.33.153.197
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * 3335 ms 216.239.35.100

Nothing but 3000+ ping times! At least it’s consistent, right? Bleh.