said by Jabbu:said by bluepoint:I do not agree, each hop contributes to latency and latency is important when you're gaming.
What do you not agree with?
Ping is ICMP, ICMP traffic routers do not care about, you know about QoS or CoS?
How do you explain seeing 2000ms on your first hop, but only 50ms on your destination?
So you are telling me ICMP packets are ignored and it means we do not pay attention to the trace results? The ms it represents for each hop is the speed the hop answers. It doesn't represent how fast it arrives to the hop. It's wrong to ignore the other routes and just be happy the the destination answers to your satisfaction.
In layman's words, it's just the same in a car race. One starts in a rough road and the other in a smooth road. If both cars races to reach the 1 mile finish line, which one do you think arrives first?