So, the recent BBC iPlayer Unotelly problems prompted me to sign up for a trial of Unblockus and I was amazed at how much better Netflix works with the latter.  I'm on Slingshot UFB and the slow/no loading of Netflix thumbnails has been a constant irritation.  I decided to do a traceroute to Netflix.com to see what is happening - I'd be interested in any comparisons or observations.

First, using Unotelly's Virginia server (it defaulted to this):
With Unotelly - virginia server

C:\Users\Simon>tracert netflix.com

Tracing route to netflix.com [54.204.2.219]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms 1 ms 192.168.2.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms ae-5-10.cpcak3-r2.tranzpeer.net [101.98.3.41]
4 5 ms 2 ms 2 ms ae-4-10.cpcak3-r2.tranzpeer.net [101.98.3.40]
5 4 ms 3 ms 1 ms pts-n.cpcak4-r1.tranzpeer.net [101.98.5.20]
6 4 ms 3 ms 4 ms pts-s.cpcak4-r1.tranzpeer.net [101.98.5.21]
7 6 ms 3 ms 3 ms bundle-100.bdr02.akl05.akl.vocus.net.nz [175.45.
102.65]
8 128 ms 130 ms 130 ms bundle-10.cor01.akl05.akl.VOCUS.net.nz [114.31.2
02.100]
9 130 ms 130 ms 127 ms bundle-200.cor02.lax01.ca.VOCUS.net [114.31.202.
47]
10 129 ms 130 ms 130 ms bundle-101.bdr02.lax01.ca.VOCUS.net [114.31.199.
51]
11 193 ms 162 ms 150 ms v301.core1.lax2.he.net [64.62.151.125]
12 138 ms 145 ms 135 ms 100ge4-1.core1.phx2.he.net [184.105.81.178]
13 169 ms 155 ms 166 ms 100ge10-1.core1.dal1.he.net [184.105.81.174]
14 162 ms 165 ms 158 ms eqix-da1.a100.1.com [206.223.118.150]
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 193 ms 193 ms 194 ms 54.240.229.2
18 193 ms 190 ms 194 ms 54.240.229.160
19 * 191 ms * 54.240.228.137
20 208 ms 207 ms 240 ms 54.239.108.148
21 192 ms 190 ms 190 ms 54.239.108.143
22 203 ms 201 ms 205 ms 54.239.109.22
23 206 ms 204 ms 205 ms 54.239.109.47
24 203 ms 202 ms 201 ms 205.251.245.244
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * 215 ms 206 ms 216.182.224.245
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.

Trace complete.