Frontier Dsl Ping slightly high

joecool169 · Post by **joecool169** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:04 pm

What do you guys think of this trace route. The tech was out today and fixed my 500ms ping to google, and said this is as good as it gets. It seems like the ping is high at hop 2?

Joe-Georges-Mac-Pro:~ Joe$ traceroute http://www.google.com
traceroute: Warning: http://www.google.com has multiple addresses; using 74.125.225.48
traceroute to http://www.l.google.com (74.125.225.48), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 dslrouter.westell.com (192.168.1.1) 0.700 ms 0.458 ms 0.368 ms
2 10.62.1.1 (10.62.1.1) 25.013 ms 25.207 ms 26.161 ms
3 * * *
4 ae4--4--ge.car03.chcg.il.frontiernet.net (74.42.149.189) 34.238 ms 33.868 ms 33.793 ms
5 xe--10-3-0---0.cor02.chcg.il.frontiernet.net (74.40.1.97) 35.083 ms 34.554 ms 34.966 ms
6 ae1---0.cbr01.chcg.il.frontiernet.net (74.40.4.142) 88.358 ms 34.007 ms 33.782 ms
7 72.14.214.187 (72.14.214.187) 34.034 ms 34.308 ms 34.371 ms
8 209.85.254.120 (209.85.254.120) 37.628 ms 34.160 ms 33.980 ms
9 209.85.250.28 (209.85.250.28) 34.300 ms 34.352 ms 34.762 ms
10 ord08s06-in-f16.1e100.net (74.125.225.48) 34.978 ms 34.128 ms 34.698 ms

Post by **Philip** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:09 pm

Hop 2 is a bit high, but not too bad, depending on how far it is from you, how congested it is, and what's the interference on the line between you and that node... Do other clients on the network get similar latency to that hop ?

joecool169 · Post by **joecool169** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:26 pm

Yeah, I tested my neighbors and his was similar. I was just looking at it thinking "damn I ping google in 35ms, but the first hops is 25ms". If that were not so high there, my ping would be awesome. If the first hop is the router, what is the second hop?