Hi I have been having some issues with my at&t adsl connection and decided to run some tests the first thing is I ran a speed test I got 5.55Mbps down and 768Kbps up this is normal did a ping check 14-25ms this is normal did a traceroute on windows
Tracing route to ny-monitor.dslreports.com [74.208.229.54]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 43 ms 42 ms 42 ms u15150124.onlinehome-server.com [74.208.229.54]
Trace complete.
What only 1 hop! This is for any and all servers I try to use on a traceroute what is going on here is this normal for my connection?
If you happen to have a VPN open to some place near the destination, then your traceroute might be going over the VPN and a 1-hop answer would be reasonable.
I am seeing 14 hops from here (on u-verse). -- AT&T Uverse; Buffalo WHR-300HP router (behind the 2wire gateway); openSuSE 12.3 RC1; firefox 18.0.2