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Re: Your input needed: How many hops to the internet?
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Ole Tange |
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Re: Your input needed: How many hops to the internet? |
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Sat, 14 May 2016 02:57:54 +0200 |
On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 1:14 AM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de> wrote:
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> 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?
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> 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.
Which is true. What I need is the value that will suit most people, so
I can use that as the default. My guess is that the value will be
around 3. So please just consider this a poll.
/Ole