nzbnw: Interesting, I was just on TradeMe and found it amusing that Xtra has Go Large advertising with TradeMe.

Grant17: Wasn't it only TelstraClear that pulled out of the peering agreement?

It seems a crazy decision to insist that traffic from other ISPs to/from TelstraClear customers has to go from NZ to the USA gateway and back again...

  3    13 ms    20 ms    14 ms  218.101.61.50
  4    56 ms    58 ms    66 ms  ba1-fe6-1-0-1-wgtn.wellington.clix.net.nz [203.9
7.9.24]
  5    31 ms    19 ms    19 ms  telstraclear1.wix.net.nz [202.7.0.70]
  6    36 ms    36 ms    49 ms  g9-0.1041.u12.brh.telstraclear.net [203.98.21.37
]
  7    37 ms    23 ms    24 ms  lnk-iconz-g1-0-1396.u12.brfd.telstraclear.net [2
03.98.18.14]
  8    32 ms     *       31 ms  ge-0-2-0.sky01-jcore.iconz.net [210.48.5.69]
  9    46 ms    38 ms    44 ms  ge-0-3-0.air02-jcore.iconz.net [210.48.5.21]
 10    64 ms    32 ms    34 ms  ae-01a.akl.iconz.net [202.14.100.20]
 11     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 12     *       30 ms    33 ms  ip-210-48-73-74.iconz.net.nz [210.48.73.74]