Ping Pong

After the last task there was the option of further investigating of network tools.
So i decided to download A-Tools which was recommended on the syllabus.
I then went ahead and sent a ping command to the webct server.
After a few times i got an average roundtrip response of 255 milliseconds.

The response time is pretty much what i assumed it would be, within decent time but probably not as quick as what it would be for Australian based student.

Next task at hand was to run a tarceroute between my local PC and the curtin.edu.au server and record how many hops it took. Keeping in mind how many hops it took earlier from the tools site. In advance i figure my tests would be similar to earlier due to my locality here in Missouri, USA.
Below is the screen capture of my results.

As you can see above there was less hops from my local pc. 19 hops in total. This was a little surprising to me. Due to the tools server being not far from my locality i thought there would have been very close in total hops.

In summation, it just goes to show that even though all roads may lead to Rome, there are many ways to get there. Some shorter than others.
Because of so many different network topology's around the Internet, and variables such as traffic and network downtimes, there is no one way for data to travel. Data can take whatever route is available at the time. Ingenious and amazing really.