Using ping to measure the round-trip times to destinations on the internet.?

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How do you find out how to measure the round-trip times to destinations on the Internet? Does it involve bringing up the command prompt?
 
Yess!!! you are gonne need the command prompt.
just click on start then Run. a small box should appear then type in command or cmd, depending on your os then the command prompt should show.

type in ping(space)(website)
then try ping(space)(ip address)

hope this answers the question.
 
offtheblock said:
How do you find out how to measure the round-trip times to destinations on the Internet? Does it involve bringing up the command prompt?
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Round-trip time (RTT) is also called as round-trip delay, is the time required for a signal pulse or data packet to travel from a specific source to a specific destination and back again.On the Internet, an end user can determine the RTT to and from an IP (Internet Protocol) address by pinging that address. The result depends on various factors including:


  • The data transfer rate of the source's Internet connection
  • The nature of the transmission medium (copper, optical fiber, wireless or satellite)
  • The physical distance between the source and the destination
  • The number of nodes between the source and the destination
  • The amount of traffic on the LAN (local area network) to which the end user is connected
  • The number of other requests being handled by intermediate nodes and the remote server
  • The speed with which intermediate nodes and the remote server function
  • The presence of interference in the circuit.

RTT does not include the time required for data transfer. That is, it includes the back-and-forth time on the wire, but excludes the time to fully download the transferred bytes (and is therefore unrelated to bandwidth). For example, for a browser to initiate a first-time connection with a web server, it must incur a minimum of 3 RTTs: 1 RTT for DNS name resolution; 1 RTT for TCP connection setup; and 1 RTT for the HTTP request and first byte of the HTTP response. Many web pages require dozens of RTTs.RTTs vary from less than one millisecond on a LAN to over one second.RTT is the major contributing factor to latency on "fast" (broadband) connections. Therefore, an important strategy for speeding up web page performance is to minimize the number of round trips that need to be made.
I just did a PING test using WhoisXY.com for ihav.net and my RTT was
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 11ms, Maximum = 12ms, Average = 11ms

Thus from this we can determine I have an average internet connection and able to connect to the respective website quite easily and with fast pace.

Sources used:
https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/best-practices/rtt?hl=fr-FR
What is round-trip time (RTT)? - Definition from WhatIs.com
 
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