Latency from Seattle to Chicago has been weird recently so I decided to run a traceroute.
Tracing route to 50.113.21.199.hypernia.com [199.21.113.50]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms dlinkrouter.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [192.168.0.1]
2 10 ms 9 ms 9 ms 73.99.164.1
3 11 ms 10 ms 11 ms te-0-0-0-1-ur05.tacoma.wa.seattle.comcast.net [68.87.206.81]
4 12 ms 16 ms 10 ms be-1-sur03.tacoma.wa.seattle.comcast.net [69.139.164.210]
5 11 ms 13 ms 63 ms ae-2-0-ar03.seattle.wa.seattle.comcast.net [68.86.177.146]
6 14 ms 14 ms 15 ms he-1-5-0-0-11-cr01.seattle.wa.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.94.65]
7 39 ms 32 ms 30 ms pos-2-12-0-0-cr01.seattle.wa.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.86.230]
8 35 ms 35 ms 35 ms pos-0-3-0-0-pe01.11greatoaks.ca.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.87.18]
9 36 ms 38 ms 37 ms xe-9-3-0.sjc10.ip4.tinet.net [213.200.80.165]
10 84 ms 83 ms 83 ms xe-2-2-3.chi11.ip4.tinet.net [89.149.185.177]
11 83 ms 83 ms 83 ms as23353.chi11.ip4.tinet.net [199.229.229.210]
12 84 ms 86 ms 83 ms ae4.cr2.ord6.us.scnet.net [204.93.204.87]
13 85 ms 85 ms 85 ms 72.ae2.ar1.ord6.us.scnet.net [204.93.204.155]
14 83 ms 84 ms 83 ms as36352.xe-0-1-0.ar1.ord6.us.scnet.net [50.31.170.122]
15 84 ms 84 ms 84 ms 10ge-1.gf146.chi1.colocrossing.com [206.217.137.250]
16 84 ms 83 ms 83 ms 50.113.21.199.hypernia.com [199.21.113.50]
Trace complete.
The route use to hit Denver then Chicago, now it goes to Cali then Chicago. Why aren't the packets routed more optimally? Any insight is appreciated.