interesting...
[tabacco@dougtabacco ~]# traceroute 77.53.45.2
traceroute to 77.53.45.2 (77.53.45.2), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 ev1s-209-62-22-209.ev1servers.net (209.62.22.209) 0.969 ms 3.576 ms 0.495 ms
2 gphou2-209-85-1-7.ev1servers.net (209.85.1.7) 0.442 ms 0.483 ms 0.438 ms
3 * * *
4 * * *
There's definitely a hop in there that's killing your connection, but I'm not sure why
I'll open a ticket with The Planet to see if they can fix it. The outbound traceroute looks like it might be timing out within their network. I also can't traceroute to anywhere else in your class C range
