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Title: A question on Tracert result
Post by: renluop on November 09, 2011, 10:22:57 AM
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C....tracert www.google.co.uk

Tracing route to www.l.google.com [209.85.227.105]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    78 ms    99 ms    99 ms  dsldevice.lan [192.168.1.254]
  2    36 ms    36 ms    36 ms  lo0-central2.pcl-ag03.plus.net [195.166.128.239]

  3    35 ms    35 ms    35 ms  gi1-6-322.pcl-gw02.plus.net [84.92.6.74]
  4    34 ms    36 ms    35 ms  po5.thn-gw02.plus.net [212.159.1.133]
  5    37 ms    35 ms    34 ms  po4.thn-gw1.plus.net [212.159.1.134]
  6    35 ms    35 ms    35 ms  72.14.222.97
  7    35 ms    35 ms    35 ms  64.233.175.25
  8    36 ms    37 ms    36 ms  209.85.253.92
  9    41 ms    42 ms    48 ms  66.249.95.173
 10    40 ms    41 ms    40 ms  216.239.49.45
 11    52 ms    53 ms    54 ms  209.85.243.101
 12    41 ms    41 ms    40 ms  wy-in-f105.1e100.net [209.85.227.105]

Trace complete.

I'm curious why step 1 (to my router) should be so much slower than the rest. Has it any particular significance?
Title: Re: A question on Tracert result
Post by: roseway on November 09, 2011, 10:32:47 AM
No significance at all. It's just an indication that your router is prioritising through traffic (its actual work) and giving a low priority to the ping response. You'll often find some of the hops on a tracert timing out or returning high values for the same reason. From a performance point of view, all that matters is the value shown against the last hop (the destination).
Title: Re: A question on Tracert result
Post by: renluop on November 09, 2011, 11:55:06 AM
Thank you for adding more to my understanding ;D