Hops

[Oscar]

Stupid question as the board is really slow tonight. Is it normal for 23 hops when I run tracert for the board?

[Steve]

I have no earthly idea what you are asking. :confused:

[Big Dave]

Can you hop 23 times before the page load or are you talking about beer???

[Oscar]

in run prompt you can type tracert www.colorado4x4.org and it will show you the trace between you and the sights server

[Tiffany]

Dude, what are you using out there in the widerness to get 23 hops?!?!?!
I got 11 from my location in Saudi Aurora.

[Oscar]

what you dont use morse code Tiffany?

[Steve]

in run prompt you can type tracert www.colorado4x4.org and it will show you the trace between you and the sights server

13 here although I still have no idea what that means.

[Big Dave]

Huh, timed out for me. Weird, considering I can post and view the board just fine.

[Oscar]

I use to see if my wireless is working right of if its my provider when I have problems. I think each hop is like a switch or something. Is that close Tiff?

[Tom N]

15 for me, for whatever thats worth?:alien:

[Alpine Spirit]

12... Still counting.
15..
20...
22..
25

Damn thats using Wild Blue.

[Eric]

13 here although I still have no idea what that means.
Think of it as intersections on a road, each node (hop) adds a few miliseconds unless that particular node is way overloaded or just plain having issues. Tracert can tell you where the problem exists along the way. There's more info in there, if you use a program like Visual Route it'll show your connection path on an outline of the US. So you can see where and how far the information has to travel between the server and your PC.

13 hops from Broomfield.

PS we'll be moving to a new server at a different location in a few weeks.

[ni0h]

There's a hop every time something sends a packet from one IP address to another. For most of us, our laptop to our router, to our internet interface, to an ISP router, to another ISP router aggregating traffic, to the ISP's internet connection, and so on.
I will point out - I just ran my traceroute out to 30 hops (TTL limit) - no return. Once something called "liteuplinc" got ahold of it, there were no more returns. Eric: I'm guessing that company has something to do with why you're making the change? It IS pretty frequent that this site is the only one I can't get to.

[Frank Z]

19 @ 104 ms. Holy shat thats....
I have no idea what it is actually.

[Clint]

Saw that last night as well, there were problems somewhere, 2-4 of the hops were 1000+ms response times, routes were changing, etc...

[ORS]

15 I think here.

[OrangeCrush]

14 hops from work on AT&T

10 Hops from server at home on Qwest dedicated link