I was curious and looked up the addresses for this particular path.
These packets appear to be zipping around the Bay Area.
A= trex (TREX-DOM)
PO Drawer O
Los Altos, CA 94023-4015
B= Clear Ink (CLEARINK-DOM)
2540 Camino Diablo, Suite 203
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
X= Missing Link (MISSING-DOM)
P.O. Box 2361
Santa Clara, CA 95055-2361
" ab 192.188.149.14:205.227.188.16 average latency ms 137.28
" num latency samples 25
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" aX 192.188.149.14:205.158.5.58 average latency ms 16.45054945
" num latency samples 91
" bX 205.227.188.16:205.158.5.58 average latency ms 12.64285714
" num latency samples 14
" %better 2hop vs 1:(ab - (aX + bX))/ ab 0.788072504
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" (pasted from the table)
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