[ale] Ping times, LAN

[David Muse]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:39:42 -0400
"Emil P. Man" <mailinglists at synban.com> 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

I may be reading this wrong, but it looks like it takes about 0.2 ms to ping the
other machine on your lan and about 92 ms to ping yahoo.

So, pinging the machine on your lan is in fact faster than pinging yahoo.

Dave Muse
david.muse at firstworks.com