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To: Gary E who wrote (7074)	4/27/1999 4:32:00 PM
From: wily	Respond to of 12617

Hal, I don't have a link that explains traceroutes, maybe someone else does? Basically, there's three types of info presented: number of hops, time for each hop, and address of each hop. I think that a hop is equivalent to a station on a railroad, where each station on the internet is a router (WAG). When there's a lot of traffic at a particular router, time to get through that point increases. A good traceroute will have all times less than 200ms. For each hop you will see three time numbers. That's because the traceroute utility tests each hop three times (for thoroughness). A good traceroute also will have a low number of hops -- mine is kind of high in that respect, although the individual times are excellent largely because mine is a (well run) cable connection. Also, it can make a difference which backbone you use -- i.e. whether it's a good match for your destination (the other end of the connection). For heavy data loads this can be very important. For regular web-surfing it's not as crucial. This is all strictly amateur musings and could be dangerously misinformed <g>. Here's a link to MB's spiel on the subject: mbtrading.com wily