Thanks.
But I read that stuff already.
The hosting is the company doing upgrades. Nothing to do with the bandwidth.
The 500ms tracert could be any number of things. I haven't gotten a 500ms tracert on anyone so I think that's an isolated incident of some whacked out kind.
The first one is a lot of info, but nothing that explains why Cogent bandwidth blows. just a lot of people saying it does because it's cheap.