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Originally Posted by glatt

Maybe it has something to do with all the intelligence agencies around here. But they can't be using the same fiber networks I use, can they?

I imagine a lot is just how close you physically are to a lot of the major switches of the entire Internets. I don't know exactly how the backbones route these days, but the whole schmear pretty much grew up around Vienna, and all of NoVA. It used to be that to get a packet from Philly to Pittsburgh you had to go through NoVA.