[ale] Ping times, LAN

[michaelstill at tmail.com (Michael Still)]

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

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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