[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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