You could post a traceroute. It may help eleuthria if he has to call the hosting provider and prove a routing issue. No one likes to admit they have a network problem and can sometimes be difficult to prove ;o)

Tracing route to uscentral.btcguild.com [69.147.241.114]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

~
  7   120 ms   101 ms   101 ms  cr2.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.153.6]
  8   121 ms   101 ms   101 ms  ggr2.attga.ip.att.net [12.122.81.97]
  9   122 ms   101 ms   101 ms  206.111.2.89.ptr.us.xo.net [206.111.2.89]
 10   123 ms    99 ms   102 ms  207.88.14.193.ptr.us.xo.net [207.88.14.193]
 11   122 ms   100 ms   103 ms  207.88.14.10.ptr.us.xo.net [207.88.14.10]
 12   124 ms   101 ms   100 ms  edge1.dal.ubiquityservers.com [207.88.185.110]
 13   122 ms   101 ms   101 ms  69.147.241.114.rdns.ubiquityservers.com [69.147.
241.114]

Central is good from North Midwest.