Hi,

Anyone besides me getting really poor speeds on gmail / google connections?  Using the ISP's DNS, so any load balancing / caching should be active (if they provide this).

For example, here is a traceroute to Facebook (good response times:)

$ traceroute www.facebook.com
traceroute to star-mini.c10r.facebook.com (179.60.193.36), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  (192.168.X.1)  1.127 ms  0.773 ms  0.750 ms
 2  * * *
 3  ext.cpcak4-r1.tranzpeer.net (101.98.0.66)  13.722 ms  11.903 ms  11.892 ms
 4  pts-s.cpcak4-r1.tranzpeer.net (101.98.5.21)  12.301 ms  11.695 ms  11.824 ms
 5  as4610.nsw.ix.asn.au (218.100.52.94)  35.235 ms  35.940 ms  37.870 ms
 6  as32934.nsw.ix.asn.au (218.100.52.99)  34.273 ms  36.707 ms  36.890 ms
 7  psw01b.syd1.tfbnw.net (173.252.66.53)  35.436 ms
    psw01c.syd1.tfbnw.net (173.252.66.52)  37.618 ms
    psw01b.syd1.tfbnw.net (173.252.66.53)  36.223 ms
 8  msw1ad.01.syd1.tfbnw.net (204.15.20.229)  35.524 ms
    msw1ae.01.syd1.tfbnw.net (173.252.64.122)  34.385 ms
    msw1ah.01.syd1.tfbnw.net (173.252.64.252)  37.434 ms
 9  edge-star-mini-shv-01-syd1.facebook.com (179.60.193.36)  35.679 ms  36.493 ms  35.858 ms

and here is a traceroute to GMail (mail.google.com):

$ traceroute mail.google.com
traceroute to googlemail.l.google.com (216.58.199.37), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  (192.168.X.1)  4.168 ms  0.914 ms  0.741 ms
 2  * * *
 3  ext.cpcak4-r1.tranzpeer.net (101.98.0.66)  12.945 ms  13.242 ms  11.989 ms
 4  pts-s.cpcak4-r1.tranzpeer.net (101.98.5.21)  12.425 ms  13.491 ms  11.791 ms
 5  72.14.243.237 (72.14.243.237)  71.124 ms  37.347 ms  39.866 ms
 6  72.14.243.236 (72.14.243.236)  35.744 ms  36.351 ms  35.827 ms
 7  216.239.40.223 (216.239.40.223)  246.337 ms
    216.239.40.233 (216.239.40.233)  254.100 ms  253.390 ms
 8  * * *
 9  * googlemail.l.google.com (216.58.199.37)  303.192 ms  1851.616 ms

"1851.616ms" - come on, that can't be "normal", surely??

So, what's happening between hopes 6 & 7 on my Gmail trace?

Currently, gmail is basically unusable.

Have tried a router reboot just on the off chance that it was something local.  It isn't as far as I can tell...