[NTLUG:Discuss] Latency times on ping and traceroute
Greg Edwards
greg at nas-inet.com
Fri Mar 7 03:27:58 CST 2003
Steve wrote:
> 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
>
Most likely difference is that your school is probably closer (fewer
hops) to a backbone than your ISP. Most ISPs access lines from a bigger
provider who gets them from a yet bigger provider while schools can get
direct to the biggest provider on the block.
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