Post #4: Traveling Through a Network
Running the ping and traceroute commands helped me better understand how information travels across the internet. These tools show how fast my computer can reach a website and the path that data takes to get there. When I tested websites like Google and Amazon UK, the results reflected the impact of distance and routing. Google had the fastest ping result with an average response time of 22 milliseconds, while Amazon UK was much slower with an average of 126 milliseconds. This difference makes sense because Google likely has a server closer to my physical location in the United States, while Amazon UK's traffic has to travel farther, possibly across the ocean, adding more delays and "hops" in the process. Traceroute provided a detailed map of each step the data made to reach the destination. These steps, called hops, represent routers between my device and the website's server. The traceroute to Google showed consistent hops with low response times, and a few timed ou...