This is in response to a previous message I received from UPC regarding the difficult to reach www.anandtech.com website (has been going on for weeks/months). Sometimes the site barely loads when connecting through the UPC network. It may take minutes or doesn't respond at all. Through Orange ADSL however it loads within seconds. The same behavior can be found when accessing www.xbitlabs.com, www.dailytech.com, and www.pcstats.com as well. It appears to always go wrong when crossing over from aorta.net to nlayer.net.

Traceroute using UPC:
Tracing route to www.anandtech.com [208.65.201.105]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  * * *
  2    11 ms     8 ms     5 ms  10.15.49.1
  3    23 ms    36 ms     7 ms  hm00cat11.brain.upc.nl [212.142.15.62]
  4    26 ms    92 ms    14 ms  p14232061.net.upc.nl [212.142.32.61]
  5    19 ms     9 ms    15 ms  nl-ams02a-ra1-ae-1-0.aorta.net [213.46.183.57]
  6    20 ms    15 ms    19 ms  nl-ams05a-rd1-10ge-0-0.aorta.net [213.46.183.2]
  7    21 ms    21 ms    20 ms  fr-par02a-rd1-pos-5-0.aorta.net [213.46.160.214]
  8   103 ms    99 ms   109 ms  us-was02a-rd1-pos-1-0.aorta.net [213.46.160.106]
  9   102 ms   117 ms   105 ms  us-was02a-ri1-10ge-1-0-0-0.aorta.net [213.46.190.194]
10   107 ms     *      123 ms  eqix.TenGig1-4.ar1.iad1.us.nlayer.net [206.223.115.61]
11     *        *      105 ms  tge2-1.ar1.iad1.us.nlayer.net [69.31.31.138]
12     *      123 ms     *     r1.vadc1.eicomm.net [69.31.30.218]
13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
15     *        *        *     Request timed out.



Taceroute with Orange:
traceroute to www.anandtech.com (208.65.201.105), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1  * * *
2  * * *
3  s55916401.adsl.wanadoo.nl (85.145.100.1)  22.305 ms  22.197 ms  34.069 ms
4  v762.dr3-asd5.nl.euro.net (194.134.154.245)  27.849 ms  26.279 ms  26.869 ms
5  g5-1.cr1-asd5.nl.euro.net (194.134.161.21)  25.963 ms  25.957 ms  26.107 ms
6  10ge1-1.cr1-asd6.nl.euro.net (194.134.161.161)  25.910 ms  26.068 ms  25.657 ms
7  pc11.er1-asd6.nl.euro.net (194.134.161.81)  25.869 ms  26.259 ms  25.841 ms
8  ge-0-1-0-0.amscr1.amsterdam.opentransit.net (193.251.254.193)  26.868 ms  25.963 ms  26.009 ms
9  64.215.195.57 (64.215.195.57)  26.471 ms  26.468 ms  26.432 ms
10  te8-4-10g.ar2.dca3.gblx.net (67.17.108.13)  110.913 ms  118.108 ms  211.252 ms
11  nlayer.ge-7-0-0.ar1.dca3.gblx.net (208.51.117.126)  113.762 ms  114.591 ms  114.620 ms
12  tge2-1.ar1.iad1.us.nlayer.net (69.31.31.138)  130.701 ms  193.437 ms  203.991 ms
13  r1.vadc1.eicomm.net (69.31.30.218)  115.017 ms  114.227 ms  114.225 ms
14  * * *
15  * * *
16  * * *

BTW, I don't care much for it but www.rockandrepublic.com can't be reached at all. I know it works as a friend of mine in the US was testing that site at the same time as I was during a phone conversation.

Same here.

No problems at all with these sites.

Edit:
ip-adres range 80.57..........

Very slow over here           77.xx ip range.
Sometimes can't reach the sites,other times barely.
Well,I have the same as you,it's not good.

I'm beginning to get a very bad feeling about this ip range. 

I have already tried to get in another range but every time I change the mac-adress of my router I get an IP that is different, but what is still in the 77.xx.xx.xx range.