How did you come by this information? Why would I need to connect to another network in Virginia?
When my verizon fios is based out of virginia? The hop right before the german one is Spain. Is that wrong too?
Or do you mean the first tinet server...that is actually alternet. The level 3 verizo guy also misunderstood that domain name.
It says tinet at the beginning of the name to label what network it is linking me too. The name that matters is alter.net at the end of the domain name. Even though I think it said MCI or something else on WHOIS, the email addresses were also for verizon. That server also traces back to brooklyn, ny.
So the server is most likely owned by verizon even they claim they don't . Its like verizon doesn't understand how 9-11 happened. Fios doesn't talk to DSL, Businness doesn't talk to residential. Or at least thats what they claim. And the route only changes after the 6th hop, and that server is on the 7th hop so they fios is no help to me.
I know for most people getting 25 ping to germany seems weird and impossible. But it might be possible because I'm on fiber optic lines, and there are no other routers or filtered traffic in the ocean and its only one hop?
But Maybe your right. But what server in particular are you talking about, and where did you get this info?