On Jul 25, 2014, at 5:02 PM, W5UXH <[email protected]> wrote:

> Almost all of my packet loss is at hop #2 which is the first node past my
> router.  

But are you seeing that packet loss reflected on every hop past that point? ISP 
routers are often configured to rate-limit or block responses to ping and 
traceroute requests since both require the router to actually process the 
packet with their CPU rather than simply forward the packets which is done via 
specialized hardware ASICs. If you see packet loss at one hop but you don’t see 
similar packet loss on every hop from that hop on, chances are you’re running 
into rate limiting or blocking and it’s not impacting your actual packet 
forwarding.

This is also a reason why Lynn’s suggestion to pick a local ISP router may work 
they way you’d want either.

73,
Bob N2KGO
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