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Re: Your input needed: How many hops to the internet?
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Jan Engelhardt |
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Re: Your input needed: How many hops to the internet? |
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Sat, 14 May 2016 01:14:49 +0200 (CEST) |
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Alpine 2.20 (LSU 67 2015-01-07) |
On Friday 2016-05-13 23:22, Ole Tange wrote:
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>The router is found by tracerouting to 8.8.8.8 (Google's public DNS)
>and selecting a router "a few hops out". But most of us will have fast
>LANs and a much slower internet connection. So I need to find a router
>that is on the internet side of the connection - preferably the first,
>so your traffic is not mixed with others.
>Which hop is the first router at your ISP?
It could be any one of them, depending on how many routers are
chained together at your location. Flip the wireless bridge from
passthrough to routed and you got yourself an extra hop.
Contention may also happen anywhere in the path, not just at home.
DECIX/Telekom a while back comes to mind.