[Uncle Peter]

Originally Posted by 73arm3

Does this look ok?....

C:\>tracert www.bbc.co.uk
Tracing route to www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.227.78]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms spc2-asht3-0-0-cust610.bagu.broadband.ntl.com [8
6.6.206.99]
2 14 ms 17 ms 10 ms 10.252.24.1
3 9 ms 14 ms 8 ms oldh-t2cam1-a-v129.inet.ntl.com [80.5.165.69]
4 7 ms 23 ms 8 ms 62.252.192.185
5 10 ms 15 ms 15 ms man-bb-a-so-020-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.175.1]
6 27 ms 27 ms 16 ms gfd-bb-b-so-200-0.inet.ntl.com [62.252.192.94]
7 19 ms 34 ms 27 ms redb-ic-1-as0-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.78]
8 82 ms 214 ms 219 ms 212.58.238.189
9 24 ms 15 ms 23 ms 212.58.238.133
10 19 ms 16 ms 37 ms 212.58.238.141
11 18 ms 15 ms 19 ms www8.rbsov.bbc.co.uk [212.58.227.78]

C:\>tracert www.bbc.co.uk
Tracing route to www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.227.79]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms spc2-asht3-0-0-cust610.bagu.broadband.ntl.com [8
6.6.206.99]
2 17 ms 17 ms 29 ms 10.252.24.1
3 8 ms 10 ms 10 ms oldh-t2cam1-b-v129.inet.ntl.com [80.5.165.109]
4 14 ms 21 ms 15 ms 62.252.192.185
5 8 ms 14 ms 10 ms man-bb-b-so-020-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.242.245]
6 9 ms 22 ms 32 ms man-bb-a-ge-000-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.187.177]
7 14 ms 25 ms 18 ms gfd-bb-b-so-200-0.inet.ntl.com [62.252.192.94]
8 56 ms 18 ms 24 ms redb-ic-1-as0-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.78]
9 141 ms 229 ms 215 ms 212.58.238.189
10 25 ms 24 ms 22 ms 212.58.238.133
11 25 ms 22 ms 27 ms 212.58.238.145
12 27 ms 45 ms 18 ms www9.rbsov.bbc.co.uk [212.58.227.79]
Trace complete.

Im looking n#8 and n#9 in consecutive tests..is that bad?

Probably not. The reply times for the hops you have highlighted will probably be due to that router treating your ping/icmp with low priority because it is currently busy processing traffic. The response back from the bbc web server is perfectly acceptable.