Traveling Through a Network: California, India and Japan

                         



Traveling Through a Network Reflection Essay

Using the ping and tracert, I understand how each packet travels when accessing all the websites. Within the tracert it shows what hop it does to arrive at its destination. With both the ping and tracert I saw that the India website takes longer as it’s far away, and it can also be the amount of data traveling to that destination simultaneously. The tracert has to pass through multiple routes, but during that journey, it showed an asterisk, highlighting the failed access to its various destinations. Amazon.in took the highest ping time whereas the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Google.com were in very close time distances. With the tracer route, again, the Indian website took the most extended number of routes to reach the destination.

Meanwhile, ABC.com.au and Google.com were neck and neck in the number of routes they had to take to reach their destinations. My conclusion is that with the examples I provided comparing the USA, India, and Australia, even though Australia is far from my current destination, it took less time than India. India, being closer to me, took longer, I think, because the amount of data that is traveling to that part of the world at the same time interferes with completing trace routes. We see that geographical location has an impact on roundtrip times. 

Ping command tells us how much time it takes to reach a destination; if the ping or response time is higher, it tells us that our internet is experiencing delay issues, and it can also tell us if the packet has been lost. Sometimes, when packets are lost, it can be a sign of a hardware issue or heavy traffic on the network. Another problem can be with the host that is responding to the data because it can be that it is unresponsive or offline. The tracert command shows us different routes and helps us map the network path and where our information is going. It can also help us identify the slow or lagging routes wherever we have a failed connection; it’s easy to highlight. The reason for timeouts and errors can be attributed to router issues, as there can be faulty hardware. Another challenge can be filtering the packets; routers can sometimes block particular packets, and this will cause delays and failures in reaching the destination.

Alyssa S questioned in my original post why response times would differ. 

I think that it depends on where the pings originate from and how much traffic they have to cross to arrive at their destination. Also to avoid congestion and routing issues within the network would be to upgrade the routers to ensure that they have the latest software to ensure a speedy travel through the network.

References:

  • ABC News. (n.d.). ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). ABC News. https://www.abc.net.au/news
  • Google. (1998, September 4). Google. Google.com. https://www.google.com
  • Online Shopping site in India: Shop Online for Mobiles, Books, Watches, Shoes and More - Amazon.in. (n.d.). Www.amazon.in. http://www.amazon.in

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