Seems that alot of people on roadrunner are havin probs with anything cogent...but, that may have to do with the fact that Roadrunner is owned by Time-Warner, as is AOL.
http://www.roadrunner.net/rdrun/
{shrugs} that's just an educated guess, though.
When I did a trace, my times werent all too bad, and just over 10 hops. I'm in SoCal, and for some reason this thing with cogent doesnt seem to be affecting us too much...well, at least not those of us on pacbell dsl...ok well, maybe just me, hehe!
I'm guessin' you must be hosted by 2 different companies..say, phatservers.net and cologroup.com (or should that be phatservers.com, instead of cologroup?) funny thing, when typed into the address bar, phatservers.com redirects to .net...but when ya trace it, it ends up at cologroup.
{shrugs} go figure...