fyi: verizon is currently having problems with it's network... lots of loss and latency.

I used pingplotter to check it out and found out the packet loss and latency occurs when it jumps from verizon to alter.net (http://www.itistimed.com/what-is-my-...mer.ALTER.NET/).

So to those of you with connection problems that are Verizon customers.. fear not, it's isp's fault...