Glen said: "You can check your "hops" (on a Windows computer, don't ask me about Macs, LOL) by opening a command prompt window and entering [COLOR=#0000ff; font-family: 'courier new', courier]tracert automaticwasher.org[/COLOR]"
Well, with Macs you have two choices, one of them is to open a Terminal window and type <span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier; color: #0000ff;">traceroute automaticwasher.org</span> (which is what a lot of Unix systems do), or you can tell the Finder to go to the Utilities Folder and open Network Utility, click Traceroute, type automaticwasher.org on the appropriate box and click Trace.
(Comcast here, about 14 hops to automaticwasher.org, minor delays around backup times.)
Well, with Macs you have two choices, one of them is to open a Terminal window and type <span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier; color: #0000ff;">traceroute automaticwasher.org</span> (which is what a lot of Unix systems do), or you can tell the Finder to go to the Utilities Folder and open Network Utility, click Traceroute, type automaticwasher.org on the appropriate box and click Trace.
(Comcast here, about 14 hops to automaticwasher.org, minor delays around backup times.)