[ale] Ping times, LAN

[Geoffrey]

Michael Still wrote:
> You must be looking at the ttl field instead of the ping time. Your ping 
> time for the locally connected machine is much lower.

Unless of course, we are disregarding decimal points???? :)

> 
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:41 pm, Emil P. Man wrote:
> 
>> ALErs,
>>
>> I have two machines plugged into a LAN router and I am pinging one 
>> machine to another like so:
>>
>> PING 192.168.0.104 (192.168.0.104) 56(84) bytes of data.
>> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.104: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.194 ms
>> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.104: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.167 ms
>>
>> from the same machine that I pinged 192.168.0.104, if I ping yahoo.com 
>> for example... :
>>
>> PING www.yahoo.akadns.net (66.94.230.35) 56(84) bytes of data.
>> 64 bytes from p4.www.scd.yahoo.com (66.94.230.35): icmp_seq=1 ttl=47 
>> time=91.6 ms
>> 64 bytes from p4.www.scd.yahoo.com (66.94.230.35): icmp_seq=2 ttl=47 
>> time=92.5 ms
>>
>> so I am getting a lower ping on the internet than I am on LAN. What is 
>> the problem here? Lol.... Transfering data from one machine to the 
>> other, is slower than through the internet. Did a traceroute, and its 
>> going directly from machine A to machine B.
>>
>> Should I invest in a switch and just plug up the router to the switch? 
>> Right now, the machines are all plugged into a four port router....
>>
>> Emil
>>
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