Over the weekend, I've had a great deal of difficulty connecting to the boards - generally, I have to try three or four times to load any given page. (Firefox reports that "www.penny-arcade.com could not be found.") It might just be on my end - I came home from school for Christmas on Friday - but I've thrown in the tracert info in any case.
Tracing route to [url]www.penny-arcade.com[/url] [38.113.222.9]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 12 ms 12 ms 13 ms *Removed*
2 12 ms 13 ms 13 ms *Removed*
3 13 ms 12 ms 13 ms *Removed*
4 31 ms 31 ms 31 ms axr00msy-7-0-0-3.bellsouth.net [65.83.237.76]
5 41 ms 41 ms 41 ms axr01asm-0-3-1.bellsouth.net [65.83.236.47]
6 42 ms 42 ms 42 ms 65.83.236.60
7 42 ms 42 ms 42 ms g11-0.core01.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.10.25]
8 51 ms 52 ms 50 ms p14-0.core01.mco01.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.4.153]
9 52 ms 52 ms 53 ms p14-0.core01.tpa01.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.4.142]
10 72 ms 72 ms 72 ms p5-0.core01.iah01.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.4.45]
11 103 ms 103 ms 104 ms p14-0.core01.san01.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.4.6]
12 106 ms 105 ms 105 ms p4-0.core01.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.4.77]
13 117 ms 117 ms 117 ms p14-0.core01.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.4.74]
14 118 ms 119 ms 119 ms g0-1.na01.b006608-1.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.67.38]
15 117 ms 119 ms 119 ms ControlNet.demarc.cogentco.com [38.112.18.194]
16 117 ms 117 ms 117 ms 38.113.222.9
Trace complete.