I'm not sure that you can make these kinds of judgments of hosting providers that easily: $ ping 66.39.3.7 PING 66.39.3.7 (66.39.3.7): 56 data bytes 64 bytes

I'm not sure that you can make these kinds of judgments of hosting providers that easily: $ ping 66.39.3.7 PING 66.39.3.7 (66.39.3.7): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 66.39.3.7: icmp_seq=0 ttl=54 time=43.215 ms 64 bytes from 66.39.3.7: icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=53.490 ms 64 bytes from 66.39.3.7: icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=44.041 ms 64 bytes from 66.39.3.7: icmp_seq=3 ttl=54 time=42.953 ms 64 bytes from 66.39.3.7: icmp_seq=4 ttl=54 time=45.672 ms 64 bytes from 66.39.3.7: icmp_seq=5 ttl=54 time=50.263 ms ^C --- 66.39.3.7 ping statistics --- 6 packets transmitted, 6 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 42.953/46.606/53.490/3.938 ms $ ping 216.218.186.2 PING 216.218.186.2 (216.218.186.2): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 216.218.186.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=55 time=99.194 ms 64 bytes from 216.218.186.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=105.039 ms 64 bytes from 216.218.186.2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=97.285 ms 64 bytes from 216.218.186.2: icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=99.197 ms 64 bytes from 216.218.186.2: icmp_seq=4 ttl=55 time=98.486 ms 64 bytes from 216.218.186.2: icmp_seq=5 ttl=55 time=98.926 ms ^C --- 216.218.186.2 ping statistics --- 6 packets transmitted, 6 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 97.285/99.688/105.039/2.481 ms Similar results on two of my hosted boxes, which may or may not be in crappy hosting environments.