The path for pinging the three websites all sent and received the same amount of packets without any loss. The path to Google was the quickest with an average roundtrip time of 85ms. The path to the Australian site, accountantsdaily.au, took the longest with an average round trip time of 285ms.
The trace route to good took twenty four hops. For accountantsdaily.au it took twenty two. And the Chinese website that I chose, eggplantdigital.cn, was only sixteen hops. I noticed that the hops later in the route for each three site tended to be higher than the earlier ones. While Google had the highest amount of hops the average speed of those hops were faster than the other two sites. Eggplantdigital.cn had the lowest amount of hops with only sixteen.
Geographic location is key to quicker routes. When pinging an IP address or domain that is far away it will take longer to complete. Pings and trace routes can help troubleshooting problems by pinpointing a location where communication is unable to be made. One reason a route may time out could be an inactive router. Another could be bad weather in an area.
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