It looks as though there is a routing issue getting to the hdforums site if you go through the Level3 network. For some reason the HDForums ISP MZIMA.net is advertising the 67.201.16.0/23 block (which the forums server IP is in) through their servers in the UK. What this means is much higher latency for anyone in the US that is going through the Level3 Communications network to get to the website.

As you can see from the traceroute below the traffic is going Germany, Netherlands and then to the UK before coming back to the US. This means 170+ ms of latency instead of the 60 ms I'm getting from my location on the Sprint and TWTelecom connections.

Someone from the forum needs to contact MZIMA and start a case on this routing issue.

traceroute 67.201.16.243
traceroute to 67.201.16.243 (67.201.16.243), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 192.168.1.254 (192.168.1.254) 3.807 ms 6.075 ms 6.012 ms
2 74-129-96-1.dhcp.insightbb.com (74.129.96.1) 19.107 ms 19.525 ms 19.925 ms
3 74-128-19-213.dhcp.insightbb.com (74.128.19.213) 20.321 ms 23.119 ms 23.609 ms
4 74.128.9.233 (74.128.9.233) 27.798 ms 28.270 ms 28.709 ms
5 xe-8-3-0.edge4.Atlanta2.Level3.net (4.59.12.57) 68.980 ms 68.931 ms 68.881 ms
6 ae-63-51.ebr3.Atlanta2.Level3.net (4.68.103.30) 45.268 ms ae-62-51.ebr2.Atlanta2.Level3.net (4.68.103.29) 24.955 ms 35.176 ms
7 ae-2-2.ebr1.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.132.86) 55.512 ms * ae-73-70.ebr3.Atlanta2.Level3.net (4.69.138.20) 51.922 ms
8 ae-71-71.csw2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.134) 53.524 ms ae-2-2.ebr1.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.132.86) 55.937 ms 55.398 ms
9 ae-92-92.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.157) 54.356 ms ae-61-61.csw1.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.130) 60.089 ms ae-71-71.csw2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.134) 61.236 ms
10 ae-82-82.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.153) 56.291 ms 41.949 ms ae-42-42.ebr2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.137.53) 132.980 ms
11 ae-2-2.ebr1.Dusseldorf1.Level3.net (4.69.132.137) 141.138 ms ae-44-44.ebr2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.137.61) 140.745 ms ae-2-2.ebr1.Dusseldorf1.Level3.net (4.69.132.137) 139.081 ms
12 ae-2-2.ebr1.Dusseldorf1.Level3.net (4.69.132.137) 130.310 ms ae-1-100.ebr2.Dusseldorf1.Level3.net (4.69.141.150) 131.990 ms 134.074 ms
13 ae-1-100.ebr2.Dusseldorf1.Level3.net (4.69.141.150) 137.801 ms ae-2-2.ebr1.Amsterdam1.Level3.net (4.69.133.89) 143.783 ms 142.824 ms
14 ae-2-2.ebr1.Amsterdam1.Level3.net (4.69.133.89) 142.400 ms ae-12-51.car2.Amsterdam1.Level3.net (4.69.139.131) 145.014 ms ae-2-2.ebr1.Amsterdam1.Level3.net (4.69.133.89) 150.125 ms
15 ae-12-51.car2.Amsterdam1.Level3.net (4.69.139.131) 144.518 ms 132.424 ms 212.72.43.14 (212.72.43.14) 136.306 ms
16 212.72.43.14 (212.72.43.14) 147.767 ms 146.554 ms 145.854 ms
17 te0-5.cr01.lga02.us.mzima.net (69.174.120.89) 134.429 ms te0-5.cr01.lhr01.uk.mzima.net (69.174.120.93) 133.310 ms te0-5.cr01.lga02.us.mzima.net (69.174.120.89) 131.633 ms
18 xe1-0.cr01.lga01.us.mzima.net (216.193.255.213) 142.160 ms 137.860 ms te0-5.cr01.lga02.us.mzima.net (69.174.120.89) 140.374 ms
19 xe1-0.cr01.lga01.us.mzima.net (216.193.255.213) 137.890 ms te1-1.cr01.iad01.us.mzima.net (69.174.120.62) 148.032 ms xe1-0.cr01.lga01.us.mzima.net (216.193.255.213) 135.556 ms
20 te1-3.cr01.atl01.us.mzima.net (69.174.120.53) 138.916 ms 134.423 ms 127.413 ms
21 te0-1.cr01.dfw01.us.mzima.net (69.174.120.49) 160.903 ms 159.327 ms te1-3.cr01.atl01.us.mzima.net (69.174.120.53) 146.434 ms
22 te0-1.cr01.dfw01.us.mzima.net (69.174.120.49) 159.571 ms 159.514 ms 158.155 ms
23 te1-1.cr01.lax02.us.mzima.net (69.174.120.33) 182.787 ms te1-1.cr01.phx01.us.mzima.net (69.174.120.37) 184.262 ms 184.475 ms
24 xe1-0.cr01.lax01.mzima.net (64.235.224.181) 189.677 ms te1-1.cr01.lax02.us.mzima.net (69.174.120.33) 193.754 ms 188.578 ms
25 xe0-0.cr01.lax06.us.mzima.net (216.193.255.98) 192.774 ms 189.208 ms xe1-0.cr01.lax01.mzima.net (64.235.224.181) 195.574 ms
26 xe0-0.cr01.lax06.us.mzima.net (216.193.255.98) 197.353 ms 196.770 ms 185.084 ms
27 67.201.16.243 (67.201.16.243) 187.000 ms 185.786 ms 67.201.17.150 (67.201.17.150) 187.013 ms
28 67.201.16.243 (67.201.16.243) 195.923 ms 190.197 ms 194.081 ms !H

 

testing

 

Here are a few more traceroutes for you:

Here is a trace from a GBLX route server (uses Level3 for its path)

traceroute 67.201.16.243

Type escape sequence to abort.
Tracing the route to 67.201.16.243

1 ge4-1-0-226-1000M.ar4.PHX1.gblx.net (67.17.64.89) 0 msec 0 msec 0 msec
2 te9-3-10GE.ar2.LAX2.gblx.net (67.17.72.202) 12 msec 8 msec 12 msec
3 te-4-1.car4.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.68.110.65) 28 msec 208 msec 12 msec
4 ae-93-90.ebr3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.69.144.244) [AS 3356] 12 msec 16 msec 20 msec
5 ae-4-4.ebr4.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.132.82) [AS 3356] 64 msec 72 msec 72 msec
6 ae-74-74.csw2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.182) [AS 3356] 64 msec
ae-94-94.csw4.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.190) [AS 3356] 68 msec 72 msec
7 ae-72-72.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.149) [AS 3356] 64 msec
ae-92-92.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.157) [AS 3356] 64 msec 64 msec
8 ae-44-44.ebr2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.137.61) [AS 3356] 152 msec 148 msec
ae-43-43.ebr2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net (4.69.137.57) [AS 3356] 152 msec
9 ae-2-2.ebr1.Dusseldorf1.Level3.net (4.69.132.137) [AS 3356] 156 msec 156 msec 156 msec
10 ae-1-100.ebr2.Dusseldorf1.Level3.net (4.69.141.150) [AS 3356] 152 msec 156 msec 156 msec
11 ae-2-2.ebr1.Amsterdam1.Level3.net (4.69.133.89) [AS 3356] 156 msec 160 msec 156 msec
12 ae-12-51.car2.Amsterdam1.Level3.net (4.69.139.131) [AS 3356] 156 msec 156 msec 156 msec
13 212.72.43.14 [AS 3356] 160 msec 156 msec 156 msec
14 te0-5.cr01.lhr01.uk.mzima.net (69.174.120.93) [AS 25973] 156 msec 156 msec 160 msec
15 te0-5.cr01.lga02.us.mzima.net (69.174.120.89) [AS 25973] 164 msec 164 msec 160 msec
16 xe1-0.cr01.lga01.us.mzima.net (216.193.255.213) [AS 25973] 156 msec 160 msec 164 msec
17 te1-1.cr01.iad01.us.mzima.net (69.174.120.62) [AS 25973] 156 msec 160 msec 164 msec
18 te1-3.cr01.atl01.us.mzima.net (69.174.120.53) [AS 25973] 176 msec 164 msec 176 msec
19 te0-1.cr01.dfw01.us.mzima.net (69.174.120.49) [AS 25973] 168 msec 164 msec 160 msec
20 te1-1.cr01.phx01.us.mzima.net (69.174.120.37) [AS 25973] 168 msec 176 msec 164 msec
21 te1-1.cr01.lax02.us.mzima.net (69.174.120.33) [AS 25973] 164 msec 176 msec 164 msec
22 xe1-0.cr01.lax01.mzima.net (64.235.224.181) [AS 25973] 164 msec 168 msec 172 msec
23 xe0-0.cr01.lax06.us.mzima.net (216.193.255.98) [AS 25973] 164 msec 164 msec 176 msec
24 67.201.17.150 [AS 25973] 164 msec 164 msec 168 msec
25 67.201.16.243 [AS 25973] 164 msec 172 msec 172 msec


Here is a partial traceroute from the TWTelecom network: Stripped the first 5 hops off to protect the identity of the network:

6 peer-02-xe-0-0-0.palo.twtelecom.net (66.192.253.26) 59.325 ms 59.406 ms 59.485 ms
7 te0-1.cr01.lax02.us.mzima.net (69.174.120.85) 65.469 ms 65.486 ms 65.426 ms
8 xe1-0.cr01.lax01.mzima.net (64.235.224.181) 62.105 ms 62.276 ms 62.254 ms
9 xe0-0.cr01.lax06.us.mzima.net (216.193.255.98) 66.335 ms 66.189 ms 66.157 ms
10 67.201.17.150 (67.201.17.150) 62.983 ms 62.961 ms 62.937 ms
11 67.201.16.243 (67.201.16.243) 70.466 ms 63.544 ms 63.712 ms


Trace from gigapot:

1 vl-51.uonet1-gw.uoregon.edu (128.223.51.2) [AS 3582] 596 msec 596 msec 596 msec
2 128.223.3.10 [AS 3582] 20 msec 0 msec 0 msec
3 vl-205.ge-2-0-0.core0-gw.pdx.oregon-gigapop.net (198.32.165.217) [AS 4600] 4 msec 4 msec 0 msec
4 vl-201.abilene-losa-gw.oregon-gigapop.net (198.32.165.194) [AS 4600] 28 msec 44 msec 24 msec
5 * * *
6 te0-1.cr01.lax02.us.mzima.net (69.174.120.85) [AS 25973] 200 msec 208 msec 208 msec
7 xe1-0.cr01.lax01.mzima.net (64.235.224.181) [AS 25973] 200 msec 200 msec 204 msec
8 xe0-0.cr01.lax06.us.mzima.net (216.193.255.98) [AS 25973] 200 msec 204 msec 200 msec
9 67.201.17.150 [AS 25973] 200 msec 244 msec 200 msec
10 67.201.16.243 [AS 25973] 200 msec 200 msec 200 msec


1 vl-51.uonet1-gw.uoregon.edu (128.223.51.2) [AS 3582] 596 msec 596 msec 596 msec
2 128.223.3.10 [AS 3582] 20 msec 0 msec 0 msec
3 vl-205.ge-2-0-0.core0-gw.pdx.oregon-gigapop.net (198.32.165.217) [AS 4600] 4 msec 4 msec 0 msec
4 vl-201.abilene-losa-gw.oregon-gigapop.net (198.32.165.194) [AS 4600] 28 msec 44 msec 24 msec
5 * * *
6 te0-1.cr01.lax02.us.mzima.net (69.174.120.85) [AS 25973] 200 msec 208 msec 208 msec
7 xe1-0.cr01.lax01.mzima.net (64.235.224.181) [AS 25973] 200 msec 200 msec 204 msec
8 xe0-0.cr01.lax06.us.mzima.net (216.193.255.98) [AS 25973] 200 msec 204 msec 200 msec
9 67.201.17.150 [AS 25973] 200 msec 244 msec 200 msec
10 67.201.16.243 [AS 25973] 200 msec 200 msec 200 msec

 

That first trace from GBLX is funny. Starts in California, goes all the way to Europe just to come back across the states to get to the destination back in California.

 

Routing issue has been fixed.