David A. Abbe wrote:


> Ok, so when I try tracert www.ionet.net as below, what am I supposed to be
> looking at?  There are three columns to stare at.
> Sending/Waiting/Receiving?  heck if I know.... This has been interesting
to
> hear about.  Thank You
>
> P.S.  this was the shortest of all of them, presumably due to their close
> proximity, ~200 miles away.  I tried microsoft.com but after a few 500ms
> readings it timed out.
>
>
> Tracing route to mail.ionet.net [206.41.128.16]
> over a maximum of 30 hops:
>
>   1   125 ms   116 ms    93 ms  bartnas1.ionet.net [38.193.96.3]
>   2   150 ms   122 ms    99 ms  nbbart.ionet.net [38.193.96.1]
>   3   173 ms   124 ms   149 ms  tul-bart-link.ionet.net [206.41.130.49]
>   4   135 ms   137 ms   150 ms  mail.ionet.net [206.41.128.16]
>
> Trace complete.
>
> David A. Abbe

Your modem sent 3  test data packets to determine how many servers it
connects to before reaching the destination and their lag times.
I ran the same tracert and I hit 4 Earthlink servers, 2 routers, and 2
servers
in your Ionet before final destination www.ionet.net.
If you have to make 13 or more hops to connect that's too many.
Also, if you experience high lag times with your ISP all the time you may
want to change.
Your results look fine.

I'm glad you tried it.
Now try it on web sites you frequently have delays and determine if the
high lag times are from your ISP or the rest of the world.

-yui shin

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