Verizon ALREADY throttling Netflix, Amazon

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30. The traceroute would be significant if it showed a suboptimal route

It could also be significant if the round trip average was an unacceptably high number, and stayed that way in subsequent hops. No idea what the other poster is talking about re the "work router" at 192.168.1.1. I see a lot of latency add at hop 3,'but the average time drops back down after that. This is called ICMP throttling--when a router gets busy, it can choose to ignore traceroutes, pings, and so on, so that it can do its main job of forwarding packets. If the latency had gotten abnormally high at that hop, and stayed that way in subsequent hops, then one could safely assume that a slowdown was being introduced at that hop (but not necessarily a product of throttling). The router at hop 3 is a Verizon router, by the way.

What does the traceroute tell us? That both streams of traffic mostly go through the same equipment (beginning at hop 3). There could be a problem at the "work router" but I see no indication of that in this traceroute.