[NTLUG:Discuss] Latency times on ping and traceroute

[Steve]

Greg Edwards wrote:
> The first pass has to find the host and later packets already know the 
> path to get there.  Your ISP may not be as close to a smart router as 
> the school's so the initial search isn't as fast.

Ah, thanks. Would the most probable explanation be my home ISP's routers 
are relatively overloaded, inefficient, etc. and are either slower to 
direct my packets or shunt them off to some less congested but much more 
circuitous path?

Steve