I currently get internet from Charter Communications.
Whenever I do a tracert, I first go from charter.com to qwest.net to the location
For example, If I type in tracert www.yahoo.com
It would ping charter.com several times, then qwest.net a couple times and then it would ping yahoo.com
Does anyone know what exactly tracert does? and why I would ping to qwest first before pinging the website I want to?
2006-09-26 17:50:53 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
Anyone know why it hops to qwest and then to the destination that I want it to go to? If not, is it possible to block or ban a specific destination hop?
I am not affiliated with qwest in any way.
The reason i'm acking this question is that I've been having lag issues with my internet recently. Some sites I ping 30's whereas others I ping 200+
I managed to isolate the issue to qwest....
Most of the sites that hop onto qwest experience 200+ms whereas others are fine.
2006-09-26 20:32:41 · update #1
The tracert command stands for "trace route" What you are doing is tracing the route of your internet connection to www.yahoo.com from your computer. It could hit a number of ISP's backbone infrastructure along the way, qwest.net being one of them. Do you use qwest for your DSL/dialtone? If so, it would first hop to your isp, then qwest.
2006-09-26 18:03:25 · answer #1 · answered by Robert 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tracert Report
2016-12-15 08:14:03 · answer #2 · answered by puente 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol that command shows you the trace route from your computer to another host, when you connect to internet you connect to your 'home' server, when you try to connect to a site it connects to that sites server which can be located anywhere in the world
so when you type tracert www.yahoo.com it shows you the path of all servers that it uses to get the information that you requested, it can be many servers depends on in which country server that you are trying to reach is located, can be 10 or 15 different connections
lol another lamma
2006-09-26 18:00:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If all and sundry of them outing, curiously like your no longer hooked as much as a community. If a number of them outing then its simply by fact the router your hitting has an selection set to make it appear as if its no longer responding (blocking off ICMP replies) whilst extremely that's. that's a secure practices function.
2016-12-12 15:54:13 · answer #4 · answered by rocca 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the internet is just a series of servers and routers all linked together, each with it's own address (the "IP address" you see in 000.000.0.0 format).
when you do a traceroute you see how many hops your request for information from website "yahoo.com" goes through to reach it's destination. just like when you layover in one city when flying to another.
when you look at the traceroute results it always amazes me how fast data can travel. you can get around the world and back and around again in a different direction in just a few seconds!
2006-09-26 18:02:16 · answer #5 · answered by country bear 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never thought about that too much
2016-07-27 13:04:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wish to ask the same question as the op.
2016-08-23 07:40:48 · answer #7 · answered by josefa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
107.233.154.156
2015-01-15 04:07:05 · answer #8 · answered by Betty 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋