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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (54541)5/13/2007 10:19:44 PM
From: steve harris  Read Replies (1) of 110645
 
Starting at the top will be your address to your ISP. Each hop after that is usually a router along the way as it passes across the United States. You'll even see it change routes from time to time based upon load or environmental factors.

Without -d will probably make more sense to you.
Mine goes to Dallas, then California, then Yahoo listing about 13 hops along the way, utilizing several different companies. #1 is your first "gateway" if you will.

I learned networking by thinking as routers and routing across the country is just like the mail system. You give your ISP a packet with a destination and source (return) address on it. They send it to the next hop along the route to it's destination. What you see listed in a traceroute command is each piece of equipment at each stop, take your packet and see where it's going and sending it to the next "post office" on the best way to get there. Traceroute is simply sending you a "delivery confirmation" from each time it's analyzed.

The country is meshed with many gateways as to not have any (much) of it dead in the water if a piece of equipment fails.

Try several different traceroutes, even to foreign websites. Of course some of your tests will fail as some have disabled this function for security reasons.

tracert www.germnews.de
is a good one to watch the stops along the way...

In summary, the first few hops is your house to Comcast neighborhood switch/router probably and then you'll see several more Comcast stops before it's handed off to the "big boys" like Sprint or ATT before getting to Yahoo. My thought was, it would tell you and Comcast exactly where there problem is. Probably in the first three hops would be my guess. Of course if your hardware link to Comcast is failing, your traceroute will probably time out and return nothing.

Maybe hooking up a cheap TV and telling them their TV picture dies too when your Internet dies would help them...
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