PLDT DSL routing woes

My PLDT DSL connection is having some routing issues lately. First off and most annoying is that I can't browse this blog. My other domain works perfectly fine, though. Here's a traceroute:

(I wonder why Window's tracert shows more hops while my Linux box merely shows end-to-end connectivity. Windows tracert shows that the connection to iandexter.net breaks at 58.71.0.79, a PLDT intermediate router.)

Here's my IP using the DSL connection:

So I used Tor. The Windows bundle includes Tor, Vidalia and Privoxy. I also used the Torbutton Firefox extension to easily toggle the Tor connection. The Tor connection IP:

Finally, I was able to browse Coredump. As expected, because of the multiple hops and encryption through the Tor relays, connection was slow as honey:

Interestingly, I couldn't even browse Speedtest.net through the DSL connection so I can't compare speeds. Sheesh.