High Pings earlier .

[Simon_idnet]

Hi Guys

Traceroute readings showing router ping times don't have any bearing on server response times. In Mohux_Jnr's traceroute you can see two routers giving readings of over 1 second and yet the server at the end of the line was responding within 51 milliseconds. If a router was holding up traffic then all points after that router would show higher readings (than the router).

Routers treat ping requests that are aimed directly at them (as traceroutes and other utilities such as Visual Ping do) as the lowest priority. Hence pings that travel through a router to a destination server get normal priority and are therefore usually lower/faster.

Hope that helps.
Simon

[Bill]

I tried, I tried... 

[Mohux_Jnr]

Thanks for the response and the correction and I am sorry I did not see the previous post regarding routers and traceroute, up until recently I have always used a DSL PCI modem so live and learn.
Could you tell me if the ping command returns a true value or are you infact just pinging the router, I use a DG834 and I remember seeing a utility on the setup page for pinging a destination directly from the router?.
Regards