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How to explain low RTT between extremely long (10s) ping intervals?

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Mar 15, 20265578 views
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I am using the ping utility to troubleshoot what seems to be a slow Internet connection on my home network, but I'm finding the results unusual and difficult to interpret. I have a Linksys wireless router, and have tried the following simultaneous tests: pinging the the router from my computer, pin…

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It seems that ping does a name resolution before each ICMP request is sent. Maybe it is implemented that way, so that a long-running ping will continue to ping the correct host, even when the host<->IP mapping changes during runtime. If there is a d…

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