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To: justaninvestor who wrote (3071)	10/26/1998 10:25:00 PM
From: Cliff Daniel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32917

Hi David - I thought you told me that an asterix denoted a lost packet. Is it slow now - well, it's taking about 15 seconds to load a page. When it's fast, it's about a second Well, an asterix shows a dropped packet to be correct. On loaded links/routers ICMP (ping) and ICMP_REPLIES (ping reply) get lowest priority and are first to be dropped. Since traceroute uses ICMP (among other things) you sometimes see asterix. Anyhow it's the best tool the average user has to troubleshoot a link between you and a target. Hop 12 in your traceroute was unacceptible, imho. 900ms and Sprint --- Too common of an occurance.